The Works of John Ruskin, Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford: Sesame and lilies. Rev. and enl. ed., 1871Smith, Elder, 1880 |
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The Works of John Ruskin, Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford: Sesame ... John Ruskin Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2019 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 163 - Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his nadir is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.
Seite 128 - LET the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, " There is a man child conceived.
Seite 8 - She riseth also while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Seite 120 - Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people...
Seite 20 - Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
Seite 120 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. 12 ^f Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity...
Seite 19 - And, as all rights in one party impose a correlative duty upon another, it follows that the right of the state to require the services of its members, even to the jeoparding of their lives in the common defence, establishes a right in the people (not to be gainsaid by utilitarians and economists) to public support when, from any cause, they may be unable to support themselves.
Seite 53 - I say further, that as long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long there can be no question at all but that splendour of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels ; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at — not lace.
Seite 208 - She is more precious than rubies : and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared to her.
Seite 119 - Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassion every man to his brother. And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor ; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.