Ruskin: Sesame and lilies. Unto this last. The Queen of the air. The storm cloud of the nineteenth centuryDana Estes & Company, 1856 |
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Page 199
... depends on its relative human capacity . Similarly : The agreeableness of a thing depends not merely on its own likeableness , but on the number of people who can be got to like it . The relative agreeableness , and therefore ...
... depends on its relative human capacity . Similarly : The agreeableness of a thing depends not merely on its own likeableness , but on the number of people who can be got to like it . The relative agreeableness , and therefore ...
Page 208
... depends either on the savage's ignorance of social arrangements in Europe , or on his want of power to take ad- vantage of them , by selling the diamond to any one else for more needles . If , farther , I make the bargain as completely ...
... depends either on the savage's ignorance of social arrangements in Europe , or on his want of power to take ad- vantage of them , by selling the diamond to any one else for more needles . If , farther , I make the bargain as completely ...
Page 322
... depend on the number of persons it can employ in making good and useful things . I say its well - being also , for the character of men depends more on their occupa tions than on any teaching we can give them , or principles with which ...
... depend on the number of persons it can employ in making good and useful things . I say its well - being also , for the character of men depends more on their occupa tions than on any teaching we can give them , or principles with which ...
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