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Unto This Last - Page 60
by John Ruskin - 2006 - 104 pages
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Literary Recreations

Sir Edward Tyas Cook - Books and reading - 1918 - 352 pages
...(ffestmintttr Gazette, March 23, 1915). who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful,...and the entirely merciful, just, and godly person. These passages both belong to Ruskin's middle period. Of his altered manner of writing in descriptive...
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The American Journal of Sociology, Volume 23

Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess - Social sciences - 1918 - 910 pages
...unsensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful,...and the entirely merciful, just, and godly person. To the degree that this view spreads, the class hierarchy is undermined. Again, the rich and leisured...
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The North American Review, Volume 209

North American review - 1919 - 1066 pages
...insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful,...and the entirely merciful, just, and godly person. Superficial and prejudiced observers have set Ruskin down as a mere fanatic or a hysterical babbler;...
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Ruskin Centenary Addresses, 8 February, 1919

Ruskin Centenary Council - 1919 - 102 pages
...insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful,...and the entirely merciful, just, and godly person.' I beg to move a most hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Mackail for his most interesting, suggestive and...
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The Harvest of Ruskin

John William Graham - 1920 - 280 pages
...insensitive and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful,...and the entirely merciful, just and godly person." x With one further piece of Ruskin's teaching 1 Unto This Last, ยง65, or p. 128. on the nature of wealth,...
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 37

Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - Economics - 1923 - 784 pages
...insensitive and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful,...impulsively wicked, the clumsy knave, the open thief, the entirely merciful, just and godly person." 2 However favorable an opinion one may hold of the business...
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 37

Charles Franklin Dunbar, Frank William Taussig, Abbott Payson Usher, Alvin Harvey Hansen, William Leonard Crum, Edward Chamberlin, Arthur Eli Monroe - Economics - 1923 - 800 pages
...insensitive and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful,...impulsively wicked, the clumsy knave, the open thief, the entirely merciful, just and godly person." 2 However favorable an opinion one may hold of the business...
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The Review of Reviews, Volume 13

Literature - 1896 - 860 pages
...insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful,...and the entirely merciful, just, and godly person.' That little sentence, the keynote of that little book, contains an entire gospel in itself, a complete...
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John Ruskin's Labour: A Study of Ruskin's Social Theory

P. D. Anthony - History - 1983 - 236 pages
...insensitive and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful,...the open thief, and the entirely merciful, just and goodly person.12 The acceptance of the science of economics is demoralising in its effect, not only...
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Critics of Capitalism: Victorian Reactions to 'Political Economy'

Elisabeth Jay, Richard Jay - Business & Economics - 1986 - 282 pages
...insensitive, and ignorant. The persons who remain poor are the entirely foolish, the entirely wise, the idle, the reckless, the humble, the thoughtful,...and the entirely merciful, just, and godly person. 66. Thus far, then, of wealth. Next, we have to ascertain the nature of PRICE; that is to say, of exchange...
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