Selections from Ruskin ...Ginn, 1895 - 148 páginas |
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... vulgar students - the thoughtless- ness and audacity of writing one that would take at least a quarter of an hour to read , and then reading it all , might for this once be forgiven to such a greenhorn , but that Coventry wasn't the ...
... vulgar students - the thoughtless- ness and audacity of writing one that would take at least a quarter of an hour to read , and then reading it all , might for this once be forgiven to such a greenhorn , but that Coventry wasn't the ...
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... vulgar sense . Learn first thoroughly the economy of the kitchen ; the good and bad qualities of every common article of food , and the simplest and best modes of their preparation . You must be to the best of your strength usefully em ...
... vulgar sense . Learn first thoroughly the economy of the kitchen ; the good and bad qualities of every common article of food , and the simplest and best modes of their preparation . You must be to the best of your strength usefully em ...
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... vulgar , or , by reason of smallness of type , physically injurious form , at a vile price . For we none of us need many books , and those which we need ought to be clearly printed , on the best paper , and strongly bound . And though ...
... vulgar , or , by reason of smallness of type , physically injurious form , at a vile price . For we none of us need many books , and those which we need ought to be clearly printed , on the best paper , and strongly bound . And though ...
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... vulgar Eng- lish one of using the word " priest " as a contraction for " presbyter . " 3 Now , in order to deal with words rightly , this is the habit you must form . Nearly every word in your language has been first a word of some ...
... vulgar Eng- lish one of using the word " priest " as a contraction for " presbyter . " 3 Now , in order to deal with words rightly , this is the habit you must form . Nearly every word in your language has been first a word of some ...
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... vulgar answer that " if the poor are not looked after in their bodies , they are in their souls ; they have spiritual food . " And Milton says , " They have no such thing as spiritual food ; they are only swollen with wind . " At first ...
... vulgar answer that " if the poor are not looked after in their bodies , they are in their souls ; they have spiritual food . " And Milton says , " They have no such thing as spiritual food ; they are only swollen with wind . " At first ...
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Página 24 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!
Página 24 - The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Página 87 - For a breeze of morning moves, And the planet of Love is on high, Beginning to faint in the light that she loves On a bed of daffodil sky, To faint in the light of the sun she loves, To faint in his light, and to die. All...
Página 125 - Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed In vision beatific.
Página 126 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Página 93 - Fire!' is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then ? Simpleton ! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting...
Página 15 - ... here, and audience there, when all the while this eternal court is open to you, with its society, wide as the world, multitudinous as its days, — the chosen and the mighty of every place and time...
Página 18 - And, therefore, first of all, I tell you earnestly and authoritatively (I know I am right in this), you must get into the habit of looking intensely at words, and assuring yourself of their meaning, syllable by syllable — nay, letter by letter.
Página 93 - Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected, all dressed in red, and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain, and fed there till wanted. "And now to that same spot in the south of Spain are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending ; till at length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition ; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun jn his hand. "...
Página 20 - ... has only to speak a sentence of any language to be known for an illiterate person : so also the accent, or turn of expression of a single sentence, will at once mark a scholar. And this is so strongly felt, so conclusively admitted, by educated persons, that a false accent or a mistaken syllable...