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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... moral relations between individuals , have not as yet been thought of , -much less estimated , -by any of your writers on commercial subjects ; and it is because I do not yet feel able to grapple with them that I LETTER I. CO - OPERATION .
... moral relations between individuals , have not as yet been thought of , -much less estimated , -by any of your writers on commercial subjects ; and it is because I do not yet feel able to grapple with them that I LETTER I. CO - OPERATION .
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John Ruskin. success , and earlier marriage , with all its beneficent moral results , would become possible to the young ; while the older men of active intellect , whose sagacity is now lost or warped in the furtherance of their own ...
John Ruskin. success , and earlier marriage , with all its beneficent moral results , would become possible to the young ; while the older men of active intellect , whose sagacity is now lost or warped in the furtherance of their own ...
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... moral state , but it is a much lower creature state than that of the upper classes . Yonder poor horse , calm slave in daily chains at the railroad siding , who drags the detached rear of the train to the front again , and slips aside ...
... moral state , but it is a much lower creature state than that of the upper classes . Yonder poor horse , calm slave in daily chains at the railroad siding , who drags the detached rear of the train to the front again , and slips aside ...
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... moral and beautiful one cannot imagine - I never see the creature without a kind of worship . And yonder musi- cian , who used the greatest power which ( in the art he knew ) the Father of spirits ever yet breathed into the clay of this ...
... moral and beautiful one cannot imagine - I never see the creature without a kind of worship . And yonder musi- cian , who used the greatest power which ( in the art he knew ) the Father of spirits ever yet breathed into the clay of this ...
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... moral respon- sibility , as modified by Scripture , are broadly divisible into three classes , severally holding the three last theories above stated . Now , whatever power a passage from the statedly au- thoritative portions of the ...
... moral respon- sibility , as modified by Scripture , are broadly divisible into three classes , severally holding the three last theories above stated . Now , whatever power a passage from the statedly au- thoritative portions of the ...
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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.