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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... persons are over whom it has power , the greater the wealth ? Perhaps it may even appear after some consider- ation , that the persons themselves are the wealth -- that these pieces of gold with which we are in the habit of guiding them ...
... persons are over whom it has power , the greater the wealth ? Perhaps it may even appear after some consider- ation , that the persons themselves are the wealth -- that these pieces of gold with which we are in the habit of guiding them ...
Page 222
... persons , will support thirty or forty intelligent and industrious ones . Which of these is their nat- ural state , and to which of them belongs the natural rate of wages ? Again : If a piece of land support forty persons in industri ...
... persons , will support thirty or forty intelligent and industrious ones . Which of these is their nat- ural state , and to which of them belongs the natural rate of wages ? Again : If a piece of land support forty persons in industri ...
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... persons who held it . The common people's was quite literal , simple , and happy their idea of Athena was as clear ... persons contriving it ; but it really meant only that the more worldly of them would play with a popular faith for ...
... persons who held it . The common people's was quite literal , simple , and happy their idea of Athena was as clear ... persons contriving it ; but it really meant only that the more worldly of them would play with a popular faith for ...
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æther Alps Athena beautiful become blue body breath calm Camarina catallactic character Chimæra cloud colour creature dark death Demeter depends earth economists electric cloud English entirely Erechtheum evil eyes fact farther fire flowers force give given gold Greek Greek art ground hand Harpies heart heaven Hephæstus Hermes Homer honour human idea Iliad justice kind labour lecture less light live look matter means merely Milan Cathedral mind modern Mont Blanc moral myths nation nature Nemean Lion ness never noble observe once passion perfect perhaps persons Pindar plague-wind political economy produce pure quantity question rain reader respecting rich rock sense serpent soul spirit strange strength sunset suppose tell things thought tion true truth vapour Voirons wages wealth weather wholly wind wise word