The Works of John Ruskin, Volum 16G. Allen, 1905 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 26 - 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.
Pàgina 18 - She riseth also while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Pàgina 236 - From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Pàgina 438 - When he uttereth his Voice there is a multitude of waters in the heavens, and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth ; he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
Pàgina xxiii - And what wealth then shall be left us, when none shall gather gold To buy his friend in the market, and pinch and pine the sold ? Nay, what save the lovely city, and the little house on the hill, And the wastes and the woodland beauty, and the happy fields we till ; And the homes of ancient stories, the tombs of the mighty dead ; And the wise men seeking out marvels, and the poet's teeming head ; And the painter's hand of wonder, and the marvellous fiddle-bow, And the banded choirs of music: all...
Pàgina 124 - Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has ta say in the fewest possible words, or his reader 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.
Pàgina 394 - 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.
Pàgina 94 - 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.
Pàgina lxvi - The aim of the following work is defined by its title: it is a history, not of English Kings or English Conquests, but of the English People.
Pàgina 394 - Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.