"Unto this Last": Four Essays on the First Principles of Political EconomyWiley, 1881 - 138 หน้า |
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Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy John Ruskin มุมมองทั้งเล่ม - 1901 |
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หน้า 64 - The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
หน้า 102 - ... cannot possess property, what degree and period of animation in the body will render possession possible ? As thus : lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking — had he the gold ? or had the gold him...
หน้า 36 - And the essential reason for such preference will be found to lie in the fact that the merchant is presumed to act always selfishly. His work may be very necessary to the community; but the motive of it is understood to be wholly personal. The merchant's first object in all his dealings must be (the public believe) to get as much for himself, and leave as little to his neighbour (or customer) as possible.
หน้า ix - Every one has a notion, sufficiently correct for common purposes, of what is meant by wealth.
หน้า 19 - Assuming, not that the human being has no skeleton, but that it is all skeleton, it founds an ossifiant theory of progress on this negation of a soul; and having shown the utmost that may be made of bones, and constructed a number of interesting geometrical figures with death's-head and humeri, successfully proves the inconvenience of the reappearance of a soul among these corpuscular structures.
หน้า 38 - The Pastor's to teach it. The Physician's to keep it in health. The Lawyer's to enforce justice in it. The Merchant's to provide for it. And the duty of all these men is, on due occasion, to die for it. "On due occasion," namely: — The Soldier, rather than leave his post in battle.
หน้า 34 - ... daily conduct in it ; but our estimate of him is based on this ultimate fact — of which we are well assured — that put him in a fortress breach, with all the pleasures of the world behind him, and only death and his duty in front of him, he will keep his face to the front...
หน้า 96 - But moral considerations have nothing to do with political economy (III. i. 2). Therefore, moral considerations have nothing to do with human capacities and dispositions.
หน้า 138 - Raise the veil boldly ; face the light ; and if, as yet, the light of the eye can only be through tears, and the light of the body through sackcloth, go thou forth weeping, bearing precious seed, until the time come, and the kingdom, when Christ's gift of bread and bequest of peace shall be Unto this last as unto thee ; and when, for earth's severed multitudes of the wicked and the weary, there shall be holier reconciliation than that of the narrow home, and calm economy, where the Wicked cease —...
หน้า 134 - No scene is continually and untiringly loved, but one rich by joyful human labour; smooth in field; fair in garden; full in orchard; trim, sweet, and frequent in homestead; ringing with voices of vivid existence.