 To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, - these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power of doing these, they never will have...  Consuming Angels: Advertising and Victorian Women - Page 49by Lori Anne Loeb - 1994 - 240 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Oxford univ, exam. papers, scholarships - 122 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now ; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to...over ploughshare or spade ; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, these are the things that make men happy ; they have always had the power of... | |
 | William Lovett - 1853 - 496 pages
...AMUSEMENTS. to man have been just as possible to him since first he was made of the earth as they are now. To watch the corn grow and the blossoms set, to draw hard breath over ploughshare and spade, to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray ; these are the things that make men happy."... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 452 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now ; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw...over ploughshare or spade ; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these arc the things that make men happy ; they have always had the power... | |
 | Idler - 1856 - 386 pages
...since he was first made of the earth, as they are now ; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to...over ploughshare or spade ; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray; — these are the things that make men happy ; they have always had the power... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they arc now ; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw...over ploughshare or spade ; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy ; they have always had the power... | |
 | 1856 - 870 pages
...and increasing the power of production, as things utterly useless for any great or noble purpose. " To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to...over ploughshare or spade ; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy ; they have always had the power... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 pages
...are now, and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. . . To watch the corn grow and the blossom set, to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade, to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray — these are the things to make man happy ; they have always had the power... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to...over ploughshare or spade ; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy ; they have always had the power... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw...breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray,—these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power... | |
 | Richard St. John Tyrwhitt - 1864 - 128 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow and the blossoms set; to draw...breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray,—these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power... | |
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