The Works of John Ruskin: Time and tide, by Weare and Tyne. "Unto this last." Munera pulveris. The eagle's nestJ. Wiley, 1889 |
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... look over some work in which you will all be deeply interested one day , so that I could not write again till now . I was the more sorry , because there were several things I wished to note in your last letter ; one especially leads me ...
... look over some work in which you will all be deeply interested one day , so that I could not write again till now . I was the more sorry , because there were several things I wished to note in your last letter ; one especially leads me ...
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... Look to it , therefore , first , that you get some wholesome honesty for the foundation of all things . Without the resolution in your hearts to do good work , so long as your right hands have motion in them ; and to do it whether the ...
... Look to it , therefore , first , that you get some wholesome honesty for the foundation of all things . Without the resolution in your hearts to do good work , so long as your right hands have motion in them ; and to do it whether the ...
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... look after the national pockets . " " I want you to notice this fact , i . e . ( the debate in question being on a total grant of 164,000l . of which 48,000l . only were truly for art's sake , and the rest for shop's sake ) , in ...
... look after the national pockets . " " I want you to notice this fact , i . e . ( the debate in question being on a total grant of 164,000l . of which 48,000l . only were truly for art's sake , and the rest for shop's sake ) , in ...
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... look at them carefully . * Mr. Carlyle him- self will be pleased to hear this letter when he comes home . I heard from him last week at Mentone . well , and glad of the light and calm of Italy . I must get back to the evil light , and ...
... look at them carefully . * Mr. Carlyle him- self will be pleased to hear this letter when he comes home . I heard from him last week at Mentone . well , and glad of the light and calm of Italy . I must get back to the evil light , and ...
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... look for things only that you like , when there are others to be seen " —this is the lesson to be taught to our youth , and inbred in them ; and that mainly by our own example and continence . Never teach a child any thing of which you ...
... look for things only that you like , when there are others to be seen " —this is the lesson to be taught to our youth , and inbred in them ; and that mainly by our own example and continence . Never teach a child any thing of which you ...
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Page 96 - 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.
Page 181 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; In a cowslip's bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 47 - The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
Page 16 - For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Page 123 - THERE is -NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
Page 37 - The best in this kind are but shadows ; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.
Page 180 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
Page 142 - To earn his cream-bowl duly set, When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 17 - Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious— certainly the least creditable • — is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined, irrespectively of the influence of social affection.
Page 96 - But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? 40. Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.