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28 de set. de 2008 · About this eBook. Author. Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Title. The Crown of Wild Olive. also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing. Language. English. LoC Class.
- Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
- Conduct of life
- English
The Crown of Wild Olive (1866, enlarged in 1873) collects some of the best specimens of Ruskin’s Carlylean manner, notably the lecture “Traffic” of 1864, which memorably draws its audience’s attention to the hypocrisy manifested by their choice of Gothic architecture for their churches but….
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- Maremma, — not by Campagna tomb, — not by the
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- 3. Now, how did it come to pass that this work
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- 5. Thus, the Croyden publican buys the iron rail-
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- 7. There is also a confused notion in the minds of many persons, that the gathering of the prop-
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- 8. I have been long accustomed, as all men engaged
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- I was always encouraged by supposing my
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- Hear me, you dying men, who will soon be deaf for-
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- It should have been of gold, they thought ; but Jupiter was poor ; this was the
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- " Working Class," must compel him, if he is in any
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I. Twenty years ago, there was no lovelier piece of lowland scenery in South England, nor any more pathetic in the world, by its expression of sweet human character and life, than that immediately bor- dering on the sources of the Wandel, and including the low moors of Addington, and the villages of Beddington and Carshalton, with all their pools a...
sand-isles of the Torcellan shore, — as the slow steal-ing of aspects of reckless, indolent, animal neglect, over the delicate sweetness of that English scene nor is any blasphemy or impiety, any frantic saying or godless thought, more appalling to me, using the best power of judgment I have to discern its sense and scope, than the insolent defilin...
5 it cannot conquer the dead earth beyond ; and there, circled and coiled under festering scum, the stagnant edge of the pool effaces itself into a slope of black slime, the accumulation of indolent years. Half-a- dozen men, with one day's work, could cleanse those pools, and trim the flowers about their banks, and make every breath of summer air a...
little piece of dead ground within, between wall and street, became a protective receptacle of refuse ; cigar ends, and oyster shells, and the like, such as an open- handed English street-populace habitually scatters ; and was thus left, unsweepable by any ordinary methods. Now the iron bars which, uselessly (or in great degree worse than uselessly...
was done instead of the other; that the strength * A fearful occurrence took place a few days since, near Wolver- hampton. Thomas Snape, aged nineteen, was on duty as the " keeper " of a blast furnace at Deepfield, assisted by John Gardner, aged eigh- teen, and Joseph Swift, aged thirty-seven. The furnace contained four tons of molten iron, and an ...
7 and life of the English operative were spent in defil- ing ground, instead of redeeming it, and in produ- cing an entirely (in that place) valueless piece of metal, which can neither be eaten nor breathed, instead of medicinal fresh air and pure water? 4. There is but one reason for it, and at present a conclusive one, — that the capitalist can c...
ing, to make himself more conspicuous to drunkards. The public-house keeper on the other side of the way presently buys another railing, to out-rail him with. Both are, as to their relative attractiveness, just where they were before ; but they have lost the price of the railings ; which they must either themselves finally lose, or make their afore...
of railings, pay, by raising the price of their beer, or adulterating it. Either the publicans, or their cus-tomers, are thus poorer hy precisely what the capital- ist has gained; and the value of the industry itself, meantime, has been lost to the nation; the iron bars in that form and place being wholly useless. 6. It is this mode of taxation of ...
erty of the poor into the hands of the rich does no ultimate harm ; since, in whosesoever hands it may think, be, it must be spent at last, and thus, they return to the poor again. This fallacy has been again and again exposed ; but granting the plea true,
the same apology may, of course, be made for black mail, or any other form of robbery. It might be (though practically it never is) as advantageous for the nation that the robber should have the spending of the money he extorts, as that the person robbed should have spent it. But this is no excuse for the theft. If I were to put a turnpike on the r...
But if he is paid to destroy food and fresh air, or to produce iron bars instead of them, — the food and air will finally not be there, and he will not get them, to his great and final inconvenience.
in work of investigation must be, to hear my state- ments laughed at for years before they are examined or believed ; and I am generally content to wait the public's time. But it has not been without displeased surprise that I have found myself totally unable, as yet, by any repetition, or illustration, to force this plain thought into my readers' ...
this impossibility than in arranging the heads of the following lectures, which, though delivered at con-siderable intervals of time, and in different places, were not prepared without reference to each other. Their connection would, however, have been made far more distinct, if I had not been prevented, by 1 INTRODUCTION. 1 what I feel to be anoth...
one had first of all to face the difficulty — to me for the present insuperable, — the difficulty of knowing whether to address one's audience as believing, or not believing, in any other world than this. For if you address any average modern English company as believing in an Eternal life, and then endeavor to draw any conclusions, from this assum...
to say, the less I found I could say it, without some reference to this intangible or intractable question. It made all the difference, in asserting any principle of war, whether one assumed that a discharge of artillery would merely knead down a certain quantity of once living clay into a level line, as in a brick- field ; or whether, out of every...
find it, and endeavor to push it into such vital that as it seems capable of. Thus, it is a creed with a great part of the existing English people, that they are in possession of a book which tells them, straight from the lips of God, all they ought to do, and need to know. I have read that book, with as much care as most of them, for some forty ye...
hearers to hold such belief. To these, if to any, I once had hope of addressing, with acceptance, words which insisted on the guilt of pride, and the futility of avarice ; from these, if from any, I once expected ratification of a political economy, which asserted that the life was more than the meat, and the body than raiment ; and these, it once ...
are inaccessible to appeals founded on it. And as, witli the so-called Christian, I desired to plead for honest declaration and fulfilment of his belief in life, — with the so-called Infidel, I desired to plead for an honest declaration and fulfilment of his belief in death. The dilemma is inevitable. Men must either hereafter live, or hereafter di...
15 assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either Durity of character, or energy of hand. The short- ness of Hfe is not, to any rational person, a conclusive reason for wasting the space of it which may be granted him ; nor does the anticipation of death to-morrow suggest, to any one but a drunkard, the ex-pediency of drunkenness to-day. To...
ever. For these others, at your right hand and your 6 1 INTRODUCTION. left, who look forward to a state of infinite existence, in which all their errors will be overruled, and all their faults forgiven ; — for these, who, stained and blackened in the battle smoke of mortality, have but to dip themselves for an instant in the font of death, and to r...
his life from your poor brother, and make his brief hours long to him with pain? Will you be more prompt to the injustice which can never be redressed ; and more niggardly of the mercy which you can bestow but once, and which, refusing, you refuse forever ? i6. I think better of you, even of the most selfish, than that you would do this, well under...
but only tinder it? The heathen, in their sad-dest hours, thought not so. They knew that life brought its contest, but they expected from it also the crown of all contest : No proud one ! no jew-elled circlet flaming through Heaven above the height of the unmerited throne ; only some few leaves of wild olive, cool to the tired brow, through a few y...
best the god could give them. Seeking a better than this, they had known it a mockery. Not in war, not in wealth, not in tyranny, was there any happiness to be found for them — only in kindly peace, fruitful and free. The wreath was to be of wild olive, mark you: — the tree that grows care- lessly, tufting the rocks with no vivid bloom, no ver- dur...
to-night to endeavor to give you an entertaining lec- ture ; but to tell you a few plain facts, and ask you a few plain questions. I have seen and known too much of the struggle for life among our laboring population, to feel at ease, under any circumstances, in inviting them to dwell on the trivialities of my own studies ; but, much more, as I mee...
wise earnest or thoughtful, to inquire in the outset, on what you yourselves suppose this class distinction has been founded in the past, and must be founded in the future. The manner of the amusement, and the matter of the teaching, which any of us can offer you, must depend wholly on our first understanding from you, whether you think the distinc...
sider that these several institutes differ, or ought to differ, from " idle men's " institutes and " idle men's " colleges ? Or by what other word than " idle" shall I distinguish those whom the happiest and wisest of working men do not object to call the "Upper Classes " ? Are there necessarily upper classes ? necessarily lower ? How much should t...
; priests who lived by begging ; and knights who lived by pillaging ; and as the luminous public mind becomes gradually cognizant of these facts, it will assuredly not suffer things to be altogether ar-ranged that way any more ; and the devising of other ways will be an agitating business ; especially because the first impression of the intelligent...
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16 de jun. de 2010 · The crown of wild olive. Four lectures on industry and war. by. Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Publication date. 1889. Publisher. Sunnyside [Eng.] : G. Allen. Collection. ubclibrary; toronto. Contributor. University of British Columbia Library. Language. English. 250 p. 18 cm. Addeddate. 2010-06-16 17:37:05. Call number. 1507523. Camera. Canon 5D.
