 | 1872 - 516 pages
...On getting Work done. 427 is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it ; if food, you must toil for it ; if pleasure, you must toil for it." This law of nature is no favourite of ours. We are like the cat... | |
 | 1881 - 792 pages
...are in God's house; the host, not the guest, is responsible for the housekeeping. — A. MacLaren. IF you want knowledge, you must toil for it ; if food...self-indulgence and indolence. When one gets to love work hia life is a happy one. — Ruskin. TRUE religion is not only a belief, but a service ; not only an... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 pages
...certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good, of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it: if food,...toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. But men do not acknowledge this law, or strive to evade it, hoping to get their knowledge, and food,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 pages
...certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good, of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it: if food,...toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. But men do not acknowledge this law, or strive to evade it, hoping to get their knowledge, and food,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good, of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it ; if food,...toil for it ; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. But men do not acknowledge this law, or strive to evade it, hoping to get their knowledge, and food,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 pages
...certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good, of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it: if food,...toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. But men do not acknowledge this law, or strive to evade it, hoping to get their knowledge, and food,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 pages
...certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good, of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it : if food,...toil for it ; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. But men do not acknowledge this law, or strive to evade it, hoping to get their knowledge, and food,... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1872 - 372 pages
...a certain quantity of work ia necessary to produce a certain quantity of good of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food,...for it; and, if pleasure, you must toil for it.'' —Austxn. catching with guile a 2 Co. vii. 2 ; i. 12; Ma. v.11. 6 2 Co. viii.6, 18. " This passage... | |
 | Robert Laird Collier - 1872 - 242 pages
...a certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it ; if food,...toil for it ; and if pleasure, you must toil for it." " That, like an emmet, them must ever toil Is the sad sentence of an ancient date. And certes there... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1873 - 406 pages
...great surprise, they saw a black army of Sepoys, with field-pieces in front, and cavalry, all ready must toil for it ; and if pleasure, you must toil for it." — Ruskin. ministers of wrath a Be. xi. 19. b Wordsworth, с Ex. xxxix. 1, 2, 5; xliv. 15, 17. " Heaven... | |
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The law of nature is, that a certain quantity of work is necessary to produce a certain quantity of good, of any kind whatever. If you want knowledge, you must toil for it: if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it. 
