The Complete Works of John Ruskin, Volume 15Reuwee, Wattley & Walsh, 1891 |
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... true , and the same apology may , of course , be made for black mail , or any other form of robbery . It might be ( though practically it never is ) as advantageous for the nation that the robber should have the spending of the money he ...
... true , and the same apology may , of course , be made for black mail , or any other form of robbery . It might be ( though practically it never is ) as advantageous for the nation that the robber should have the spending of the money he ...
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... true . The wretched creature appeared to have been dead several hours . He had perished of cold and wet , and the rain had been beating down on him all night . The deceased was a bone - picker . He was in the lowest stage of poverty ...
... true . The wretched creature appeared to have been dead several hours . He had perished of cold and wet , and the rain had been beating down on him all night . The deceased was a bone - picker . He was in the lowest stage of poverty ...
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... true -that whenever money is the principal object of life with either man or nation , it is both got ill , and spent ill ; and does harm both in the getting and spending ; but when it is not the principal object , it and all other ...
... true -that whenever money is the principal object of life with either man or nation , it is both got ill , and spent ill ; and does harm both in the getting and spending ; but when it is not the principal object , it and all other ...
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... true , since against them these words are written in it : The rust of your gold and silver shall be a witness against you , and shall eat your flesh , as it were fire . ' III . I pass now to our third condition of separation , be- tween ...
... true , since against them these words are written in it : The rust of your gold and silver shall be a witness against you , and shall eat your flesh , as it were fire . ' III . I pass now to our third condition of separation , be- tween ...
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... true to yourselves , and to us who would help you . We can do nothing for you , nor you for yourselves , without honesty . Get that , you get all ; without that , your suffrages , your reforms , your free - trade measures , your ...
... true to yourselves , and to us who would help you . We can do nothing for you , nor you for yourselves , without honesty . Get that , you get all ; without that , your suffrages , your reforms , your free - trade measures , your ...
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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.