The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century: Two Lectures Delivered at the London Institution, February 4th and 11th, 1884Ruskin on smoke-abatement. |
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Page 124 - GOD be merciful unto us, and bless us ; And cause his face to shine upon us. That thy way may be known upon earth, Thy saving health among all nations.
Page 114 - BETTER is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife.
Page 26 - The time so tranquil is and still That nowhere shall ye find. Save on a high and barren hill, An air of peeping wind. All trees and simples, great and small, That balmy leaf do bear, Than they were painted on a wall No more they move or steir.
Page 116 - Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
Page 115 - Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
Page 124 - That thy way may be known upon earth, Thy saving health among all nations. Let the people praise thee, O God ; Let all the people praise thee. O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: For thou shalt judge the people righteously, And govern the nations upon earth.
Page 124 - Then shall the earth yield her increase ; And GOD, even our own GOD, shall bless us. GOD shall bless us ; And all the ends of the earth shall fear him.
Page 110 - No more firing was heard at Brussels — the pursuit rolled miles away. Darkness came down on the field and city ; and Amelia was praying for George, who was lying on his face, dead, with a bullet through his heart.
Page 31 - And it is a new thing to me, and a very dreadful one. I am fifty years old, and more ; and since I was five, have gleaned the best hours of my life in the sun of spring and summer mornings ; and I never saw such as these, till now. " And the scientific men are busy as ants, examining the sun, and the moon, and the seven stars, and can tell me all about them, I believe, by this time ; and how they move, and what they are made of. " And I do not care, for my part, two copper spangles how they move,...
Page 105 - Be as a presence or a motion — one Among the many there ; and, while the mists Flying, and rainy vapours, call out shapes And phantoms from the crags and solid earth As fast as a musician scatters sounds Out of an instrument...