The Complete Works of John Ruskin, Volume 15Reuwee, Wattley & Walsh, 1891 |
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... poor by the rich which is referred to in the text ( page 31 ) , in comparing the modern acquisitive power of capital with that of the lance and sword ; the only difference being that the levy of black mail in old times was by force ...
... poor by the rich which is referred to in the text ( page 31 ) , in comparing the modern acquisitive power of capital with that of the lance and sword ; the only difference being that the levy of black mail in old times was by force ...
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... poor of England - for the poor of all countries - is wholly omitted in every common treatise on the subject of wealth . Even by the labourers themselves , the operation of capital is regarded only in its effect on their immediate ...
... poor of England - for the poor of all countries - is wholly omitted in every common treatise on the subject of wealth . Even by the labourers themselves , the operation of capital is regarded only in its effect on their immediate ...
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... poor , over whom they know their Master is watching ; and to leave those to perish temporarily , who cannot perish eternally . But , for you , there is no such hope , and therefore no such excuse . This fate , which you ordain for the ...
... poor , over whom they know their Master is watching ; and to leave those to perish temporarily , who cannot perish eternally . But , for you , there is no such hope , and therefore no such excuse . This fate , which you ordain for the ...
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... poor broth- er , and make his brief hours long to him with pain ? Will you be readier to the injustice which can never be redressed ; and niggardly of mercy which you can bestow but once , and which , refusing , you refuse for ever ? I ...
... poor broth- er , and make his brief hours long to him with pain ? Will you be readier to the injustice which can never be redressed ; and niggardly of mercy which you can bestow but once , and which , refusing , you refuse for ever ? I ...
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... poor are idle , and will never work if they can help it , or more than they can help . For indeed the fact is , that there are idle poor and idle rich ; and there are busy poor and busy rich . Many a beggar is as lazy as if he had ten ...
... poor are idle , and will never work if they can help it , or more than they can help . For indeed the fact is , that there are idle poor and idle rich ; and there are busy poor and busy rich . Many a beggar is as lazy as if he had ten ...
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Page 70 - Fire!" is given and they blow the souls out of one another, and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen out; and, instead of shooting one...
Page 193 - 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 49 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Page 46 - Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel : They quitted not their harness bright Neither by day nor yet by night • They lay down to rest, With corslet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard ; They carved at the meal With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.
Page 379 - Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm : for love is strong as death ; jealousy is cruel as the grave : the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame...
Page 70 - What, speaking in quite unofficial language, is the net purport and upshot of war ? To my own knowledge, for example, there dwell and toil, in the British village of Dumdrudge, usually some five hundred souls. From these, by certain
Page 400 - Our cities are a wilderness of spinning wheels instead of palaces ; yet the people have not clothes. We have blackened every leaf of English greenwood with ashes, and the people die of cold ; our harbors are a forest of merchant ships, and the people die of hunger.
Page 302 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water : whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Page 426 - Spree, is a monument of his zeal in this way ; creditable with the means he had. To the poor French Protestants in the Edict-ofNantes affair, he was like an express benefit of Heaven ; one helper appointed to whom the help itself was profitable. He munificently welcomed them to Brandenburg; showed really a noble piety and human pity, as well as judgment ; nor did Brandenburg and he want their reward. Some 20,000 nimble French souls, evidently of the best French quality, found a home there ; made...
Page 6 - ... nevertheless chastises to purity; but it cannot conquer the dead earth beyond: and there, circled and coiled under festering scum, the stagnant edge of the pool effaces itself into a slope of black slime, the accumulation of indolent years.