 A truly valuable or availing thing is that which leads to life with its whole strength. In proportion as it does not lead to life, or as its strength is broken, it is less valuable ; in proportion as it leads away from life, it is tinvaluable or malignant.  Unto This Last - Page 55by John Ruskin - 2006 - 104 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...ought to be familiar to them. Valor, from valere, to be well, or strong (yyiaivu) ; — strong, in life (if a man), or valiant ; strong, for life (if...; in proportion as it leads away from life, it is tinvaluable or malignant. The value of a thing, therefore, is independent of opinion, and of quantity.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...ought to be familiar to them. Valor, from valere, to be well, or strong (¿ymiVw) ; — strong, in life (if a man), or valiant; strong, for life (if...avail towards life." A truly valuable or availing tiling is that which leads to life with its whole strength. In proportion as it does not lead to life,... | |
 | Literature - 1861 - 878 pages
...therefore, ought to be familiar to them. Valor, from valere, to be well, or strong (vyiaivu) ; strong, in life (if a man), or valiant ; strong, for life (if...valuable. To be " valuable," therefore, is to " avail toward life." A truly valuable or availing thing is that which leads to life with its whole strength.... | |
 | 1866 - 978 pages
...well or strong (iiytaiva) ; — strong, IR Ufe lif a man), or valiant; strong for life lifa tiling), or valuable." To be " valuable," therefore, is to...avail towards life." A truly valuable or availing tiling is that which leads to life with its whole strength. In proportion as it does not lead to life,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Economics - 1872 - 156 pages
...ought to be familiar to them. Valor, from valere, to be well, or strong (iyiaivu) ; — strong, in life (if a man), or valiant ; strong, for life (if...towards life." A truly valuable or availing thing ia that which leads to life with its whole strength. In proportion as it does not load to life, or... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 782 pages
...ought to be familiar to them. Valor, from valere, to be well, or strong (iiyiaivu) ; — strong, in life (if a man), or valiant ; strong, for life (if...that which leads to life with its whole strength. In pro portion as it does not lead to life, or as its strength is broken, it is less valuable ; in proportion... | |
 | Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - Economics - 1888 - 558 pages
...minerals, its books and works of art." Valor, from valere, to be well or strong (vyiaiva), — strong, in life (if a man), or valiant ; strong, for life (if a thing), or valuable. To bo " valuable," therefore, is to " avail towards life." A truly valuable or availing thing is that... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 454 pages
...ought to be familiar to them. Valor, from valere, to be well, or strong (uyuxiVw) ; — strong, in life (if a man), or valiant ; strong, for life (if...or availing thing is that which leads to life with ita whole strength. In proportion as it does not lead to life, or as its strength is broken, it is... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard - Great Britain - 1919 - 140 pages
...some other labour." According to Ruskin : " To be valuable is to avail towards life. A truly valuable thing is that which leads to life with its whole strength....or as its strength is broken, it is less valuable ; as it leads away from life, it is invaluable or malignant." It is apparent to all that joy, success... | |
 | Benjamin Orange Flower - Periodicals - 1912 - 630 pages
...as Ruskin long ago pointed out, meant originally the quality of being well or strong — "strong, in life (if a man), or valiant; strong, for life (if...thing), or valuable." To be "valuable," therefore, is, in the original sense, to "avail toward and the power of disseminating It: means of free communication... | |
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