Sesame and Lillies: Three LecturesCosimo, Inc., 01/10/2006 - 192 من الصفحات As a vocal critic of art on the whole, British writer JOHN RUSKIN (1819-1900) was a profoundly influential voice upon European painting, architecture, aesthetics of the 19th and 20th centuries. This 1865 collection of three lectures-"Of Kings' Treasures," "Of Queens' Gardens," and "Of the Mysteries of Life"-offers an intimate look at his thoughts on culture and humanity's nurturing of its own education. He discusses: . the importance of "valuable books" . the nature of "a civilized country" . the necessity of educating women . advice for living a plain but noble life . and more. Students of art history will in particular find this an enlightening read. |
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... nature of the world they have to conquer . VI . These two lectures are fragmentary and ill- arranged , but not , I think , diffuse or much compres- sible . The entire gist and conclusion of them , however , is in the last six paragraphs ...
... nature of the world they have to conquer . VI . These two lectures are fragmentary and ill- arranged , but not , I think , diffuse or much compres- sible . The entire gist and conclusion of them , however , is in the last six paragraphs ...
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... nature and character . You have not been born in a luminous point upon the surface of the globe , where a perfect theology might be expounded to you from your youth up , and where everything you were taught would be true , and ...
... nature and character . You have not been born in a luminous point upon the surface of the globe , where a perfect theology might be expounded to you from your youth up , and where everything you were taught would be true , and ...
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... nature of real evil . Observe , therefore , carefully in this matter : there are degrees of pain , as degrees of faithfulness , which are altogether conquer- able , and which seem to be merely forms of whole- some trial or discipline ...
... nature of real evil . Observe , therefore , carefully in this matter : there are degrees of pain , as degrees of faithfulness , which are altogether conquer- able , and which seem to be merely forms of whole- some trial or discipline ...
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... right principle of action here is to consider good and evil as defined by our natural sense of both ; and to strive to promote the one , and to conquer the other , with as hearty endeavor as if there were , indeed , no other 16 PREFACE .
... right principle of action here is to consider good and evil as defined by our natural sense of both ; and to strive to promote the one , and to conquer the other , with as hearty endeavor as if there were , indeed , no other 16 PREFACE .
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عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
عذرًا، محتوى هذه الصفحة مقيَّد.
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