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 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 for ...
... answer second . 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 for ...
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... answered she ; even if I had had nothing to carry to the town , I should have come , all the same ; for eight days ago I wasn't able to thank you ; nor to ask if that cost anything . A fine question ! said Hansli . Why , you served me ...
... answered she ; even if I had had nothing to carry to the town , I should have come , all the same ; for eight days ago I wasn't able to thank you ; nor to ask if that cost anything . A fine question ! said Hansli . Why , you served me ...
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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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Page 591 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD ; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Page 310 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
Page 178 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Page 329 - For if the word spoken by Angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation ; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
Page 590 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them...
Page 217 - Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein : Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice Before the LORD : for HE cometh, For HE cometh to judge the earth : HE shall judge the world with righteousness, And the people with his truth.
Page 599 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Page 451 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 310 - Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall: Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty in his place again." "That last line is much too long for the poetry," she added, almost out loud, forgetting that Humpty Dumpty would hear her.
Page 398 - We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own works or deservings. Wherefore, that we are justified by Faith only, is a most wholesome Doctrine, and very full of comfort, as more largely is expressed in the Homily of Justification.