Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious : Gathered from the Works of John RuskinMerrill and Baker, 1865 - 477 Seiten |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ages Alps Aristotle asceticism assuredly Assyria beauty become Berlin wool Bible Bishopric of Sion blue called Capernaum cerning Christ Christian Church clouds colour creatures dark dead death delight despise Divine earth Epaminondas eternal evil expression eyes faith false fear feeling flowers gifts glory God's habit hand heart heaven honour human idolatry imagination intellect kind knowledge labour leaf less light live look Mammon manual labour mean ment mercy middle ages mind modern mountain nations nature Nebuchadnezzar ness never noble Octave Feuillet once ourselves painter passion peace peasant perfect perhaps person pine Plato pleasure pride Psalm question race respect reverence rock sense sight sorrow soul spects spirit stones strange strength suppose tain teach temper things thou thought tion Titian trees true truth virtues vulgar VULGAR FRACTIONS whole word
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 118 - I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest : for it is thou, Lord, only, that makest me dwell in safety.
Seite 189 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Seite 228 - And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly ; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Seite 2 - Certainly it is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his nadir 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.
Seite 404 - God, into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Seite 326 - Woods ! that listen to the night birds' singing, Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind...
Seite 353 - And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price : neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.
Seite 152 - And, therefore, while in all things that we see, or do, we are to desire perfection, and strive for it, we are nevertheless not to set the meaner thing, in its narrow accomplishment, above the nobler thing, in its mighty progress; not to esteem smooth minuteness above shattered majesty ; not to prefer mean victory to honourable defeat ; not to lower the level of our aim, that we may the more surely enjoy the complacency of success.
Seite 6 - There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough : The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
Seite 54 - He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been for ever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart, which can only be discharged...