Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.Wiley, 1866 - 349 страница |
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... answered that the Lord of power and life knew which were his noblest works , when He bade His servant watch the play of the Leviathan , rather than dissect the spawn of the minnow ; and that when it comes to practical question whether a ...
... answered that the Lord of power and life knew which were his noblest works , when He bade His servant watch the play of the Leviathan , rather than dissect the spawn of the minnow ; and that when it comes to practical question whether a ...
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... answering to them as they wave . Nor are those wings colorless . We habitually think of the rain - cloud only as dark and gray ; not knowing that we owe to it perhaps the fairest , though not the most dazzling of the hues of heaven ...
... answering to them as they wave . Nor are those wings colorless . We habitually think of the rain - cloud only as dark and gray ; not knowing that we owe to it perhaps the fairest , though not the most dazzling of the hues of heaven ...
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... answer the Spout , and say , Spout , you were set there for our service , and may be taken away and thrown aside if anything goes wrong with you . But the Fountain will flow for ever . Observe , I do not deny a most solemn authority ...
... answer the Spout , and say , Spout , you were set there for our service , and may be taken away and thrown aside if anything goes wrong with you . But the Fountain will flow for ever . Observe , I do not deny a most solemn authority ...
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... answered . So far from it , I rather believe that some of the mysteries of the clouds never will be under- stood by us at all . " Knowest thou the balancings of the clouds ? " Is the answer ever to be one of pride ? " The wondrous works ...
... answered . So far from it , I rather believe that some of the mysteries of the clouds never will be under- stood by us at all . " Knowest thou the balancings of the clouds ? " Is the answer ever to be one of pride ? " The wondrous works ...
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... answer illuminated here and there . * There is a beautiful passage in Sartor Resartus concerning this old Hebrew scroll , in its deeper meanings , and the child's watching it , though long illegible for him , yet " with an eye to the ...
... answer illuminated here and there . * There is a beautiful passage in Sartor Resartus concerning this old Hebrew scroll , in its deeper meanings , and the child's watching it , though long illegible for him , yet " with an eye to the ...
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Страница 86 - I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest : for it is thou, Lord, only, that makest me dwell in safety.
Страница 166 - And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly ; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Страница 3 - There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough : The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
Страница 298 - Gospel ; and that as the heathen, in their alienation from God, changed His glory into an image made like unto corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, the Christian, in his approach to God, is to undo this work, and to change the corruptible...
Страница 225 - Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow...
Страница 240 - Woods! that listen to the night-birds' singing, Midway the smooth and perilous slope reclined, Save when your own imperious branches swinging, Have made a solemn music of the wind! Where, like a man beloved of God, Through glooms, which never woodman trod...
Страница 138 - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Страница 312 - ... you can reach imagination. That peace must come in its own time ; as the waters settle themselves into clearness as well as quietness ; you can no more filter your mind into purity than you can compress it into calmness ; you must keep it pure, if you would have it pure ; and throw no stones into it, if you would have it quiet.
Страница 11 - ... quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest. No words, that I know of, will say what these mosses are. None are delicate enough, none perfect enough, none rich enough.
Страница 67 - Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.