The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 28G. Allen, 1907 |
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... shilling , will be all the same to the public if the book is found useful ; —but I fix , and mean to keep to , tenpence , because I intend striking for use on my farms the pure silver coin called in Florence the " soldo , " of which the ...
... shilling , will be all the same to the public if the book is found useful ; —but I fix , and mean to keep to , tenpence , because I intend striking for use on my farms the pure silver coin called in Florence the " soldo , " of which the ...
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... shillings a week or a day , and that sum is lost to himself or his friends . Hitherto he has supported himself ; now he must be maintained by the State - that is , by his fellow - subjects . Hitherto he has added to the national wealth ...
... shillings a week or a day , and that sum is lost to himself or his friends . Hitherto he has supported himself ; now he must be maintained by the State - that is , by his fellow - subjects . Hitherto he has added to the national wealth ...
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... shillings ; when we asked if we might buy some lovely mackerel on the Fish Quay , they said ( the fisher- men ) that they were not allowed to sell them there , except all at once . Since then , I have read an account of a Royal ...
... shillings ; when we asked if we might buy some lovely mackerel on the Fish Quay , they said ( the fisher- men ) that they were not allowed to sell them there , except all at once . Since then , I have read an account of a Royal ...
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... shilling Advance of wages wich was 5 for one and 6 for tow with an increes of speed and with improved mecheens in A few years I was minding tow mecheens with tow 100 trads Each and Dubel speed for 98 perweek so that in our improved ...
... shilling Advance of wages wich was 5 for one and 6 for tow with an increes of speed and with improved mecheens in A few years I was minding tow mecheens with tow 100 trads Each and Dubel speed for 98 perweek so that in our improved ...
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... shillings fare . During the twenty - four miles transit , he is idle , dusty , stupid ; and either more hot or cold than is pleasant to him . In either case he drinks beer at two or three of the stations , passes his time , between them ...
... shillings fare . During the twenty - four miles transit , he is idle , dusty , stupid ; and either more hot or cold than is pleasant to him . In either case he drinks beer at two or three of the stations , passes his time , between them ...
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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...
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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.
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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.