John Ruskin, Preacher, and Other EssaysAbingdon Press, 1921 - 187 pages |
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... which they miscall art . Ruskin was the unfailing champion of the things which are honest and just and pure and lovely and of good report . His dominant 7 concern was with the mighty truths of human nature upon JOHN RUSKIN, PREACHER.
... which they miscall art . Ruskin was the unfailing champion of the things which are honest and just and pure and lovely and of good report . His dominant 7 concern was with the mighty truths of human nature upon JOHN RUSKIN, PREACHER.
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Lewis Herbert Chrisman. concern was with the mighty truths of human nature upon which the laws of both art and life are based . In one of his key sentences he tells us " that the manual arts are as accurate exponents of ethical states as ...
Lewis Herbert Chrisman. concern was with the mighty truths of human nature upon which the laws of both art and life are based . In one of his key sentences he tells us " that the manual arts are as accurate exponents of ethical states as ...
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... mighty intellect , he towers to - day , among our American thinkers , like a colossus . In the early days of the New England theocracy the clergy were the lords of the land . The New England parson in his black Geneva cloak and close ...
... mighty intellect , he towers to - day , among our American thinkers , like a colossus . In the early days of the New England theocracy the clergy were the lords of the land . The New England parson in his black Geneva cloak and close ...
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... mighty span The purpose of God and the fate of man ! Yet faithful still in his daily round To the weak and the poor and sin - sick found , The schoolman's lore and the casuist art Drew warmth and life from his fervent heart . Had he not ...
... mighty span The purpose of God and the fate of man ! Yet faithful still in his daily round To the weak and the poor and sin - sick found , The schoolman's lore and the casuist art Drew warmth and life from his fervent heart . Had he not ...
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... mighty message of the flaming - hearted , golden - mouthed prophet of Dumfries's purple moors was burn- ing its way into the souls of men . From the lecture platform Emerson was giving to in- quiring minds a somewhat misty and shallow ...
... mighty message of the flaming - hearted , golden - mouthed prophet of Dumfries's purple moors was burn- ing its way into the souls of men . From the lecture platform Emerson was giving to in- quiring minds a somewhat misty and shallow ...
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Page 95 - God pity them both! and pity us all, Who vainly the dreams of youth recall. For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been...
Page 158 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and, sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 97 - Not on the vulgar mass Called 'work' must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had the price; O'er which from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice...
Page 155 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 47 - Spite of this flesh to-day I strove, made head, gained ground upon the whole!" As the bird wings and sings, Let us cry, "All good things Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!
Page 98 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 63 - And if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain.
Page 88 - And thinking of the days that are no more. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That brings our friends up from the underworld, Sad as the last which reddens over one That sinks with all we love below the verge; So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more.
Page 30 - ... From my childhood up, my mind had been full of objections against the doctrine of God's sovereignty, in choosing whom he would to eternal life, and rejecting whom he pleased; leaving them eternally to perish, and be everlastingly tormented in hell. It used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me.
Page 33 - They say there is a young lady in New Haven who is beloved of that great Being who made and rules the world, and that there are certain seasons in which this great Being, in some way or other invisible, comes to her and fills her mind with exceeding sweet delight...