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Fors Clavigera
Author: John RuskinThe Works of John Ruskin: Fors clavigera; letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain
Author: John RuskinFORS CLAVIGERA LETTERS TO THE WORKMEN AND LABOURERS OF GREAT BRITAIN VOLUME 4
Author: JOHN RUSKINPublisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
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Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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One day last November, at Oxford, as I was going in at the private door of the University galleries, to give a lecture on the Fine Arts in Florence, I was hindered for a moment by a nice little girl, whipping a top on the pavement. She was a very nice little girl; and rejoiced wholly in her whip, and top; but could not inflict the reviving chastisement with all the activity that was in her, because she had on a large and dilapidated pair of woman’s shoes, which projected the full length of her own little foot behind it and before; and being securely fastened to her ancles in the manner of mocassins, admitted, indeed, of dextrous glissades, and other modes of progress quite sufficient for ordinary purposes; but not conveniently of all the evolutions proper to the pursuit of a whipping-top......
FORS CLAVIGERA LETTERS TO THE WORKMEN AND LABOURERS OF GREAT BRITAIN VOLUME 1
Author: JOHN RUSKINPublisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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We begin to-day another group of ten years, not in happy circumstances. Although, for the time, exempted from the direct calamities which have fallen on neighbouring states, believe me, we have not escaped them because of our better deservings, nor by our better wisdom; but only for one or two bad reasons, or for both: either that we have not sense enough to determine in a great national quarrel which side is right, or that we have not courage to defend the right, when we have discerned it.I believe that both these bad reasons exist in full force; that our own political divisions prevent us from understanding the laws of international justice; and that, even if we did, we should not dare to defend, perhaps not even to assert them, being on this first of January, 1871, in much bodily fear; that is to say, afraid of the Russians; afraid of the Prussians; afraid of the Americans; afraid of the Hindoos; afraid of the Chinese; afraid of the Japanese; afraid of the New Zealanders; and afraid of the Caffres: and very justly so, being conscious that our only real desire respecting any of these nations has been to get as much out of them as we could.....
Fors Clavigera Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain
Author: John RuskinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385380138
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Works of John Ruskin: Fors Clavigera, letters
Author: John RuskinPublisher:
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Category : Art critics
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Volume 1-35, works. Volume 36-37, letters. Volume 38 provides an extensive bibliography of Ruskin's writings and a catalogue of his drawings, with corrections to earlier volumes in George Allen's Library Edition of the Works of John Ruskin. Volume 39, general index.
The Works of John Ruskin: Fors clavigera; letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain
Author: John RuskinFors Clavigera
Author: John RuskinPublisher:
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain
Author: John RuskinPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780530165011
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Fors Clavigera; Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain, In Eight Volumes
Author: John RuskinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387079540
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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