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 153
... force . But he being , on the contrary , an engine whose motive power is a Soul , the force of this very peculiar agent , as an unknown quantity , enters into all the political economist's equations , without his knowledge , and ...
... force . But he being , on the contrary , an engine whose motive power is a Soul , the force of this very peculiar agent , as an unknown quantity , enters into all the political economist's equations , without his knowledge , and ...
Page 279
... force as much greater than the force by which the world swings , as that is greater than the force by which a cobweb trembles . Now , on heat and force , life is inseparably dependent ; and I believe , also , on a form of substance ...
... force as much greater than the force by which the world swings , as that is greater than the force by which a cobweb trembles . Now , on heat and force , life is inseparably dependent ; and I believe , also , on a form of substance ...
Page 324
... force enough at our dis- posal . Whereas at present we continually hear economists regret that the water - power of the cascades or streams of a country should be lost , but hardly ever that the muscular power of its idle inhabitants ...
... force enough at our dis- posal . Whereas at present we continually hear economists regret that the water - power of the cascades or streams of a country should be lost , but hardly ever that the muscular power of its idle inhabitants ...
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