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" The noblest scenes of the earth can be seen and known but by few ; it is not intended that man should live always in the midst of them ; he injures them by his presence, he ceases to feel them if he be always with them : but the sky is for all ; bright... "
Hand-book for Young Painters - Page 258
by Charles Robert Leslie - 1870 - 315 pages
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The Irish Monthly, Volume 17

1889 - 684 pages
...them if he be always with them : but the sky is for all ; bright as it is, it is not ' too bright or good For human nature's daily food ;' it is fitted...soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust."* In spite of this fact, man scarcely deigns to look at it, unless it be to learn the weather. He will...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 78

1889 - 1038 pages
...ceases to feel them if he bo always with them ; but the sky is for all ; bright as it is it is not Moo bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food';...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals and Religion ..., Volume 1

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1890 - 348 pages
...quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from other sources of interest...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...
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Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...

Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 pages
...them if he be always with them : but the sky is for all ; bright as it is, it is not ' Too bright or good For human nature's daily food '; it is fitted...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...
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Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...

Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 pages
...them if he be always with them : but the sky is for all ; bright as it is, it is not ' Too bright or good For human nature's daily food ' ; it is fitted...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...
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The Complete Works of John Ruskin, Volume 20

John Ruskin - 1891 - 452 pages
...doing for him constantly. The noblest scenes of the earth can be seen and known but by few; it«is not intended that man should live always in the midst...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...
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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 pages
...them if he be always with them. But the sky is for all ; bright as it is, it is not ,too bright or good for human nature's daily food;' it is fitted,...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart; for the soolhing it, and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,...
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Advanced Reader, Specially Prepared to Elicit Thought and to Facilitate ...

Christian Brothers - 1893 - 460 pages
...or of beauty, has this doing for him constantly. The noblest scenes of earth can be seen and knowr but by few: it is not intended that man should live,...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...
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Of general principles and of truth

John Ruskin - 1894 - 360 pages
...quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from other sources of interest...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purify. ing it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,...
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The Work of John Ruskin: Its Influence Upon Modern Thought and Life

Sir Charles Waldstein - 1894 - 214 pages
...perpetual pleasure. And every man, wherever placed, however far from the other sources of interest or beauty, has this doing for him constantly. The noblest...the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...
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