The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 28G. Allen, 1907 |
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... answer , we imagine , would at once shock and surprise the scholarly gentlemen to whom the Democrats are indebted for their logic and their rhetoric . Meanwhile Mr. Ruskin and the Council of the Workmen's National Peace Society have ...
... answer , we imagine , would at once shock and surprise the scholarly gentlemen to whom the Democrats are indebted for their logic and their rhetoric . Meanwhile Mr. Ruskin and the Council of the Workmen's National Peace Society have ...
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... Answer first : My book is meant for no one who cannot reach it . If a man with all the ingenuity of Lancashire in his brains , and breed of Lancashire in his body ; with all the steam and coal power in Lancashire to back his ingenuity ...
... Answer first : My book is meant for no one who cannot reach it . If a man with all the ingenuity of Lancashire in his brains , and breed of Lancashire in his body ; with all the steam and coal power in Lancashire to back his ingenuity ...
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... answer second . Whether Whether my Lancashire friends need any aid to their discernment of what is good or bad in literature , I do not know ; -but I mean to give them the best help I can ; and , therefore , not to allow them to have ...
... answer second . Whether Whether my Lancashire friends need any aid to their discernment of what is good or bad in literature , I do not know ; -but I mean to give them the best help I can ; and , therefore , not to allow them to have ...
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... answer struck so home that Alceste was disconcerted by it ; but he wished to sustain his debût , and began to satirize the world . I have lived in the world like another , said M. de Laval , and I have not seen that it was so wicked ...
... answer struck so home that Alceste was disconcerted by it ; but he wished to sustain his debût , and began to satirize the world . I have lived in the world like another , said M. de Laval , and I have not seen that it was so wicked ...
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... answered he , that would be enough for the King , but it would not be enough for me . Where should I be if they paid ... answer for this to you - I who am your father . For those who are in arrear , I will take some measures for support ...
... answered he , that would be enough for the King , but it would not be enough for me . Where should I be if they paid ... answer for this to you - I who am your father . For those who are in arrear , I will take some measures for support ...
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