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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... present suffering , or present crime : but with what we cannot know , we are not concerned . It is conceivable that murderers and liars may in some distant world be exalted into a higher humanity than they could have reached without ...
... present suffering , or present crime : but with what we cannot know , we are not concerned . It is conceivable that murderers and liars may in some distant world be exalted into a higher humanity than they could have reached without ...
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... present world , from whom , therefore , we may surely learn , at least , how , at present , conveniently to live in it . What will they say to us , or show us by example ? These kings - these councillors- these statesmen and builders of ...
... present world , from whom , therefore , we may surely learn , at least , how , at present , conveniently to live in it . What will they say to us , or show us by example ? These kings - these councillors- these statesmen and builders of ...
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... present so many admirable subjects for your study , I must speak for the present of one only : the Hercules of Camarina . You have , represented by a Greek workman , in that coin , the face of a man , and the skin of a lion's head . And ...
... present so many admirable subjects for your study , I must speak for the present of one only : the Hercules of Camarina . You have , represented by a Greek workman , in that coin , the face of a man , and the skin of a lion's head . And ...
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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