Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.Wiley, 1866 - 349 páginas |
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Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious : Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin,Louisa Caroline Tuthill Visualização integral - 1890 |
Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious : Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin,Louisa Caroline Tuthill Visualização integral - 1890 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Alps appointed Aristotle asceticism Assyria beauty becomes believe Bible Bishopric of Sion blue cardinal virtues cerning character Christ Christian Church clouds colour creatures dark dead death delight Divine earth Epaminondas eternal evil expression eyes faith false fear feeling flowers gifts glory God's habit hand heart heaven honour human idolatry imagination infinite intellect kind knowledge labour leaf less light lionaires living look manual labour means mercy middle ages mind modern monotony mountain nations nature Nebuchadnezzar necessary ness never noble observe Octave Feuillet once ourselves painter passion peace peasant perceive perfect perhaps person Plato pleasure pride Psalms race racter respect reverence rock sense sight sorrow soul spirit stone storm of passion strange strength suppose teach things thought tion Titian trees true truth virtues vulgar VULGAR FRACTIONS whole words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 86 - I will lay me down in peace, and take my rest : for it is thou, Lord, only, that makest me dwell in safety.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 225 - Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And Time the Shadow...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.