Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, Volume 7G. Allen, 1877 - Aesthetics |
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... never has been , nor can be , got , nor kept , otherwise , when the population on it was as large as it could maintain . The establishment of laws respecting its possession merely define and direct the force by which it is held : and ...
... never has been , nor can be , got , nor kept , otherwise , when the population on it was as large as it could maintain . The establishment of laws respecting its possession merely define and direct the force by which it is held : and ...
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... never fine , are already coarsened still more by custom . " Dear sir ( if you will allow me to call you so ) , I have expressed myself ill , and not so that you can , from what I have written , put yourself in our place . But if you ...
... never fine , are already coarsened still more by custom . " Dear sir ( if you will allow me to call you so ) , I have expressed myself ill , and not so that you can , from what I have written , put yourself in our place . But if you ...
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... never once during these seven years have I regretted building . There are some things which I should like altered , and for the benefit of those who may be intending to follow my example , I will say what they are , and get rid of them ...
... never once during these seven years have I regretted building . There are some things which I should like altered , and for the benefit of those who may be intending to follow my example , I will say what they are , and get rid of them ...
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... never been drawn with absolute accuracy before . " My correspondent has misunderstood me . I never said ' the spiral ' but this spiral , under discussion . I have no doubt the machines are very ingenious . But they will never draw a ...
... never been drawn with absolute accuracy before . " My correspondent has misunderstood me . I never said ' the spiral ' but this spiral , under discussion . I have no doubt the machines are very ingenious . But they will never draw a ...
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... never read , with attention enough to remember , words which most other good English scholars will instantly compare with his somewhat forced -- or even , one might say , steam- craned , rhyme , to ' wills , ' " Roaring moon of ...
... never read , with attention enough to remember , words which most other good English scholars will instantly compare with his somewhat forced -- or even , one might say , steam- craned , rhyme , to ' wills , ' " Roaring moon of ...
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Page 190 - In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.
Page 169 - He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil; He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
Page 148 - Surely vain are all men by nature, who are ignorant of God, and could not out of the good things that are seen know him that is: neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster; 2 But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.
Page 68 - The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee; A poet could not but be gay In such a jocund company.
Page 97 - He that committeth sin is of the Devil; for the Devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the Devil.
Page 97 - We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren.
Page 94 - It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle and pure and penitent and good speaks to him for ever out of his English bible It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled. In the length and breadth of the land there is not a protestant with one spark of religiousness about him, whose spiritual biography is not in his Saxon bible...
Page 94 - The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft and gentle, and pure and penitent and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible.
Page 94 - Who will not say that the uncommon beauty and marvellous English of the Protestant Bible is not one of the great strongholds of heresy in this country ? It lives on the ear, like a music that can never be forgotten, like the sound of church bells, which the convert hardly knows how he can forego. Its felicities often seem to be almost things rather than mere words. It is part of the national mind, and the anchor of national seriousness The memory of the dead passes into it.
Page 195 - But I think there is a demon who seats himself on the feather of my pen when I begin to write, and leads it astray from the purpose. Characters expand under my hand; incidents are multiplied; the story lingers, while the materials increase; my regular mansion turns out a Gothic anomaly, and the work is closed long before I have attained the point I proposed.