To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray — these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power of doing these, and they never will... Modern Painters ... - Página 310por John Ruskin - 1856Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Lovett - 1853 - 496 páginas
...AMUSEMENTS. to man have been just as possible to him since first he was made of the earth as they are now. To watch the corn grow and the blossoms set, to draw hard breath over ploughshare and spade, to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray ; these are the things that make men happy."... | |
| 1856 - 870 páginas
...and increasing the power of production, as things utterly useless for any great or noble purpose. " To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to...have always had the power of doing these, they never icill have power to do more. The world's prosperity or adversity depends upon our knowing and teaching... | |
| John Ruskin - 1856 - 452 páginas
...possible to man have been just as possible to him, since first he was made of the earth, as they are now ; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace....read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these arc the things that make men happy ; they have always had the power of doing these, they never will... | |
| Andrew James Symington - 1857 - 374 páginas
...possible to man, have been just as possible to him since first he was made of the earth as they are now, and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. . . To watch the corn grow and the blossom set, to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade, to read, to think, to love, to hope, to... | |
| John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 páginas
...possible to man have been just as possible to him, since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace....or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray,—these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power of doing these, they... | |
| Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 páginas
...possible to man have been just as possible to him since first ho was made of the earth as they are eat law, That links the chain of beings to each other, Joining the greater to t tho blossom set, to draw hard breath over ploughshare and spade, to read, to think, to love, to hope,... | |
| Richard St. John Tyrwhitt - 1864 - 128 páginas
...possible to man have been just as possible to him, since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace....or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray,—these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power of doing these, they... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1867 - 502 páginas
...possible to man have been just as possible to him, since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace....set ; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade ; t( read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy ; they... | |
| John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 páginas
...possible to man have been just as possible to him, since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace....draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade ; to read, tojhink, tojlove, to hope, to pray, — these_arfi_the things that make men happy ; they have "always... | |
| John Ruskin - 1872 - 418 páginas
...possible to man have been just as possible to him, since first he was made of the earth, as they are now ; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace....have always had the power of doing these, they never ivill have power to do more. The world's prosperity or adversity depends upon our knowing and teaching... | |
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