The Works of John Ruskin: Fors Clavigera, lettersG. Allen, 1907 |
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... keep calm and adopt a gentler tone . " After this seventh year , " he writes in the last Letter of 1877 , " I am going out into the highways and hedges ; but no more with expostulation . I have wearied myself in the fire enough ; and ...
... keep calm and adopt a gentler tone . " After this seventh year , " he writes in the last Letter of 1877 , " I am going out into the highways and hedges ; but no more with expostulation . I have wearied myself in the fire enough ; and ...
Page xxv
... keeping clear of that " blameful work " which excited him unduly , and they are among the most interesting and charming of the series . We need not here anticipate the story of his life after 1878 , which will be found in a later ...
... keeping clear of that " blameful work " which excited him unduly , and they are among the most interesting and charming of the series . We need not here anticipate the story of his life after 1878 , which will be found in a later ...
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... keep other people from living in Yorkshire . The Yorkshire squires say the whole of Yorkshire belongs to them , and will not let any part of Yorkshire become useful to anybody else , but by enforcing payment of rent for the use of it ...
... keep other people from living in Yorkshire . The Yorkshire squires say the whole of Yorkshire belongs to them , and will not let any part of Yorkshire become useful to anybody else , but by enforcing payment of rent for the use of it ...
Page 20
... keep provisions in a private locker ; —still less must any man of the crew of a city on short allowance.1 " But how if other districts refused to sell us food , as you say we should refuse to sell food to them ? " You Sheffielders are ...
... keep provisions in a private locker ; —still less must any man of the crew of a city on short allowance.1 " But how if other districts refused to sell us food , as you say we should refuse to sell food to them ? " You Sheffielders are ...
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... is described as being " to empower local authorities to carry on the trade themselves through the agency of managers remunerated by fixed salaries . " ] and a half , and the middleman keeps two and LETTER 78 ( JANUARY 1877 ) 21.
... is described as being " to empower local authorities to carry on the trade themselves through the agency of managers remunerated by fixed salaries . " ] and a half , and the middleman keeps two and LETTER 78 ( JANUARY 1877 ) 21.
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