 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...student, must feel how contrary to experience is such a statement. " It is not possible," says Ruskin, " for a Christian man to walk across so much as a rood...sense of a dew falling upon him out of the sky."* A devout naturalist has defined beauty as God's hand-writing. This is a brief but expressive definition,... | |
 | Christian life - 1847 - 600 pages
...at certain moments, strength of some kind, or rebuke from the appealing of outward things ; and that it is not possible for a Christian man to walk across so much as a rood of the natural earth, with a mind unagitated and rightly poised, without receiving strength and hope, from some stone, flower,... | |
 | 1846 - 534 pages
...at certain moments, strength of some kind or rebuke from the appealings of outward things ; and that it is not possible for a Christian man to walk across...without a sense of a dew falling upon him out of the sky — though, I say, this falsity is not wholly and in terms admitted, yet it seems to be partly and... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1847 - 624 pages
...at certain moments, strength of some kind, or rebuke from the appealing of outward things ; and that it is not possible for a Christian man to walk across so much as a rood of the natural earth, with a mind unagitated and rightly poised, without receiving strength and hope, from some stone, flower,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1848 - 266 pages
...certain moments, strength of some kind, or rebuke, from the appealings of outward things; , and that it is not possible for a Christian man to walk across...a sense of a dew falling upon him out of the sky; though, I say, this falsity is not wholly and in terms admitted, yet it seems to be partly and practically... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1853 - 144 pages
...fields at even ; they dwell on the duty of self-denial, but they exhibit not the duty of delight. ... It is not possible for a Christian man to walk across...without receiving strength and hope from some stone, leaf, flower, or sound, nor without a sense of a dew falling upon him out of the sky." — MODERN PAINTEKS.... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - Conduct of life - 1854 - 180 pages
...fields at even ; they dwell on the dnty of self-denial, bat they exhibit not the duty of delight . . . It is not possible for a Christian man to walk across so much as a rood of the natural earth, with miud unagitated and rightly poised, without receiving strength and hope from some stone, leaf, flower,... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - Ethics - 1854 - 280 pages
...they exhibit not the duty of delight. . . . It is not possible for a Christian man to walk across H. much as a rood of the natural earth, with mind unagitated...and rightly poised, without receiving strength and hop* from some stone, leaf, flower, or sound, nor without ft sense of a dew falling upon him out of... | |
 | John Ruskin - ART - 1856 - 252 pages
...* T»T» »-f« strength of some kind, or rebuke, from the appealings of outward things ; and that it is not possible for a Christian man to walk across...without a sense of a dew falling upon him out of the sky ; though, I say, this falsity is not wholly and in terms admitted, yet it seems to be partly and practically... | |
 | 1856 - 796 pages
...fields at eventide. They dwell on the duty of self-denial, but they exhibit not the duty of delight. It is not possible for a Christian man to walk across...without receiving strength and hope from some stone, leaf, flower, or sound, nor without a sense of a dew falling upon him out of the iky." — Ruskin'i... | |
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... it is not possible for a Christian man to walk across so much as a rood of the natural earth, with mind unagitated and rightly poised, without receiving strength and hope from some stone, flower, leaf, or sound, nor without a sense of a dew falling... 
