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by John Ruskin - 2006 - 104 pages
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Selections and Essays

John Ruskin - Art - 1918 - 456 pages
...engine for pay, or under pressure, or by help of any kind of fuel which may be applied by the chaldron. It will be done only when the motive force, that is...the creature, is brought to its greatest strength by itsJ own proper fuel : namely, by the affections. It may indeed happen, and does happen often, that...
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Selections and Essays

John Ruskin - English essays - 1918 - 454 pages
...by the chaldron. It will be done only f +£ motive force, that is to say, the will or spirit o tne creature, is brought to its greatest strength by its own. proper fuel : namely, by the affections. fH ™ay ln.deed happen, and does happen often, that if me master is a man of sense and energy, a large...
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Catholic World, Volume 108

1919 - 926 pages
...power is a soul;" and the largest quantity of work will be done " only when the motive force, that is, the will or spirit of the creature, is brought to...by its own proper fuel; namely, by the affections." "The universal law of the matter is," he claimed, " that, if the master, instead of endeavoring to...
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The Application of the Teachings of Jesus to "The Responsibility of the ...

Robert Henry Albach - Business ethics - 1921 - 44 pages
...gained from the workman when he is put under pressure or when he is aided with machinery, etc. but "it will be done only when the motive force, that is to say, the will or spirit of the creature 24 Essays in Applied Christianity (the workman), is brought to its greatest strength by its own proper...
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Campaigners Grave & Gay: Studies of Four Soldiers of the Eighteenth and ...

Leslie Heber Thornton - Generals - 1925 - 340 pages
...or by the help of any kind of fuel which may be supplied by the chaldron. It will be done only when the will or spirit of the creature is brought to its...by its own proper fuel, namely by the affections." In his chapter on morale he points out, amongst other things, the fact that regiments in the French...
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Century Types of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged

George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...ultimately done, or of good ; rendered, by the person so cared for, will ^indeed be the greatest possible. mmands the beauteous files. He is thy gracious friend, And—O my soul, and energy, a large quantity of material work may be done under mechanical pressure, enforced by strong...
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Strangeness and Beauty: Volume 1, Ruskin to Swinburne: An Anthology of ...

Eric Warner, Graham Hough - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 314 pages
...engine for pay, or under pressure, or by help of any kind of fuel which may be supplied by the chaldron. It will be done only when the motive force, that is...happen often, that if the master is a man of sense and energy, a large quantity of material work may be done under mechanical pressure, enforced by strong...
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Under Technology's Thumb

William Leiss - Nature - 1990 - 190 pages
...kind of fuel which may be supplied by the cauldron. It will be done only when the motive force ... is brought to its greatest strength by its own proper fuel: namely by the affections.'9 Ruskin's distinction reinforces the metaphor of the master-servant relation as a way...
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Hard Times

Charles Dickens - Fiction - 1996 - 470 pages
...engine for pay, or under pressure, or by help of any kind of fuel which may be supplied by the chaldron. It will be done only when the motive force, that is...happen often, that if the master is a man of sense and energy, a large quantity of material work may be done under mechanical pressure, enforced by strong...
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Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History

Geoffrey Martin Hodgson - Business & Economics - 1999 - 362 pages
...engine for pay, or under pressure, or by help of any kind of fuel which may be supplied by the chaldron. It will be done only when the motive force, that is...by its own proper fuel; namely, by the affections. John Ruskin, Unto This Last (1866) Stories of the possible end of capitalism, and of the future beyond,...
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