 ... All else for which the builders sacrificed, has passed away - — all their living interests, and aims, and achievements. We know not for what they laboured, and we see no evidence of their reward. Victory, wealth, authority, happiness — all have...  The Christian Examiner - Page 3801866Full view - About this book
 | Church architecture - 1801 - 466 pages
...Victory, wealth, authority, happiness — all have departed, though bought by many a bitter sacrifice. But of them, and their life and their toil upon the...have taken with them to the grave their powers, their honours, and their errors ; but they have left us their adoration." (p. 26.) The disquisition on the... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1849 - 306 pages
...Victory, wealth, authority, happiness — all have departed, though bought by many a bitter sacrifice. But of them, and their life and their toil upon the...have taken with them to the grave their powers, their honours, and their errors ; but they have left us their adoration. CHAP. II. THE LAMP OF TRUTH. I.... | |
 | Church architecture - 1853 - 512 pages
...the ancient builders, we should be content also with their reward. ' Of them,' it has been well said, 'of them, and their life, and their toil upon the...earth, one reward, one evidence is left to us, in those grey heaps of deep wrought stone. They have taken with them to the grave their powers, their honours,... | |
 | John Willis Clark, Joseph William Dunning - Norway - 1857 - 262 pages
...or Pompeii. CHAPTER XXIV. A WEEK'S CHURCH-HUNTING. " Of them — the builders — and their life and toil upon the earth, one reward, one evidence, is left to us in those grey heaps of deep-wrought stone. They have taken with them to the grave their powers, their honours,... | |
 | 1860 - 324 pages
...victory, wealth, authority, happiness : all have departed, though bought by many a bitter sacrifice. But of them and their life, and their toil upon the...to us in those gray heaps of deep-wrought stone." In how infinitely a higher and grander sense is this true of the faithful Sunday-school teacher, who... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...Victory, wealth, authority, happiness — all have departed, though bought by many a bitter sacrifice. But of them, and their life and their toil upon the...earth, one reward, one evidence, is left to us in those grey heaps of deep-wrought stone. They have taken with them to the grave their powers, their honours,... | |
 | A. C. Owen - Art schools - 1876 - 520 pages
...of gold." And, all else for which they laboured and sacrificed having passed away, " of them and of their life, and their toil upon the earth, one reward, one evidence is left to us. They have taken with them to the grave their powers, their honour, and their errors ; but they have... | |
 | A. C. Owen - Art schools - 1876 - 522 pages
...of gold." And, all else for which they laboured and sacrificed having passed away, " of them and of their life, and their toil upon the earth, one reward, one evidence is left to us. They have taken with them to the grave their powers, their honour, and their errors ; but they have... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics, Modern - 1880 - 306 pages
...Victory, wealth, authority, happiness — all have departed, though bought by many a bitter sacrifice. But of them, and their life and their toil upon the...one evidence, is left to us in those gray heaps of deep- wrought stone. They have taken with them to the grave their powers, their honours, and their... | |
 | John Ruskin - Essays - 1884 - 504 pages
...and their life and their toil upon the earth, one reward, one evidence, is left to us in those grey heaps of deep-wrought stone. They have taken with them to the grave their powers, then honours, and their errors; but they have left us their adoration. — 8.LAch.L§ 15. NOBLE ORNAMENT.... | |
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