The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 27

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G. Allen, 1907
 

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Page lvi - I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant Land.
Page 272 - Captain Sentry, my master's nephew, has taken possession of the Hall-house, and the whole estate. When my old master saw him, a little before his death, he shook him by the hand, and wished him joy of the estate. which was falling to him, desiring him only to make...
Page lxxxii - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page lxi - Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know — it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
Page 625 - Then gleamed aloft his dagger bright ! But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game : For, while the dagger gleamed on high, Reeled soul and sense, reeled brain and eye. Down came the blow ! but in the heath The erring blade found bloodless sheath.
Page 666 - For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving : for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Page 144 - No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper ; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
Page xlv - England is full of wealth, of multifarious produce, supply for human want in every kind; yet England is dying of inanition. With unabated bounty the land of England blooms and grows; waving with yellow harvests; thick-studded with workshops, industrial implements, with fifteen millions of workers, understood to be the strongest, the cunningest and the...
Page 144 - And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
Page 13 - London, — has become hateful to me, because of the misery that I know of and see signs of where I know it not, which no imagination can interpret too bitterly.

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