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" Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when... "
Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute of ... - Page 49
by American Institute of Instruction - 1894
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin - Architecture - 1849 - 306 pages
...measure by this test. Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone ; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion: Selected ...

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build (public edifices) for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone ; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lav stone on stone, that a time is to come when...
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The seven lamps of architecture

John Ruskin - 1866 - 456 pages
...measure by this test. Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone : let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when...
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Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...measure by this test. Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone ; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build (public edifices) for ever, Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone , let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lav stone on stone, that a time is to come THE...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion: Selected ...

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1872 - 500 pages
...Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build (public ediiices) for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone , let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lav stone on stone, that a time is to coma when...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...Architecture. The Lump c*f BaadjWhen we build, let us think that we build (public edifices) for ever. sui.-h work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us. think, u» OCCUPATIONS ARCHITECTURE....
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...Architecture. The Lamp of Beauty. When we build, let us think that we build (public edifices) for ever. Let it not be for the present delight, nor for present use alone, let it bo such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as OCCUPATIONS- ARCHITECTURE....
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Gems for the Fireside: Comprising the Most Unique, Touching, Pithy, and ...

Otis Henry Tiffany - Anthologies - 1883 - 954 pages
...woe The fate of many. (Bryant. When we build, let us think that we build (public edifices) for ever. Let it not be for the present delight, nor for present use alone, let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when...
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Notes on the Plan of Franklin Park and Related Matters

Boston (Mass.). Dept. of Parks - Franklin Park (Boston, Mass.) - 1886 - 130 pages
...the time between the seed-sowing and the harvest is the fullness of the fruit." " Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think . . . that a time is to come when . . . men will say...
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