 | John Ruskin - 1865 - 256 pages
...as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store. Bread of flour is good ; but there...and we are filthy and foolish enough to thumb each ether's books out of circulating libraries ! II. I say we have despised science. "What!" (you exclaim)... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1865 - 302 pages
...as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store. Bread of flour is good ; but there...if we would eat it, in a good book ; and the family mu?t be poor indeed which, once in their lives, cannot, for such mnltipliable barley-loaves, pay their... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 144 pages
...as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store. Bread of flour is good ; but there...thumb each other's books out of circulating libraries 1 II. I say we have despised science. *' What!" (you exclaim) " are we not foremost in all discovery,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 212 pages
...as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store. Bread of flour is good ; but there...thumb each other's books out of circulating libraries ! 33. II. I say we have despised science. "What!" (you exclaim) " are we not foremost in all discovery,*... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 268 pages
...weapon he needs in an armory, or a house-wife bring the spice she needs from her store. Bread of flours good, but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would...thumb each other's books out of circulating libraries. 33. (b) I say we have despised science. " What !" you exclaim, " are we not foremost in all discovery,1... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 220 pages
...as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store. Bread of flour is good ; but there...once in their lives, cannot, for such multipliable barley- loaves, pay their baker's bill. We call ourselves a rich nation, and we are filthy and foolish... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 216 pages
...as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store. Bread of flour is good ; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if he would eat it, in a good book ; and the family must be poor indeed which, once in their lives, cannot,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1882 - 224 pages
...as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store. Bread of flour is good ; but there...thumb each other's books out of circulating libraries ! II. I say we have despised science. '_' What !" (you exclaim) " are we not foremost in all discovery,... | |
 | Alexander Ireland - 1883 - 320 pages
...as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store. Bread of flour is good ; but there...good book ; and the family must be poor indeed which onoe in their lives, cannot, for such multipliable barley-loaves, pay their baker's bill. We call ourselves... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1883 - 212 pages
...as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in an armoury, or a housewife bring the spice she needs from her store. Bread of flour is good ; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if he would eat it, in a good book ; and the family must be poor indeed which, once in their lives, cannot,... | |
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... book is worth anything which is not worth much; nor is it serviceable, until it has been read, and re-read, and loved, and loved again ; and marked, so that you can refer to the passages you want in it, as a soldier can seize the weapon he needs in... 
