Ruskin John: 114 books

Ce livre offre une splendide description de l’architecture de Venise avec quelques belles envolées poétiques très bien traduites par Mathilde Crémieux. Un merveilleux guide d’une ville, avec des informations intéressantes et des références de premier ordre. ll n’est pas étonnant que ce livre ait été un ouvrage de référence pendant longtemps.

The following lectures were really given, in substance, at a girls' school (far in the country); which, in the course of various experiments on the possibility of introducing some better practice of drawing into the modern scheme of female education, I visited frequently enough to enable the children...

It may be proved, with much certainty, that God intends no man to live in this world without working: but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work. It is written, "in the sweat of thy brow," but it was never written, "in the breaking of thine...

“Meinie” is an old English word for “many”—“in the sense of ‘a many’ persons attending one, as bridesmaids,” the author explains in a preface. This 1873 work looks at avian life through the eyes of both a poet and scientist, compiling lectures delivered at Oxford on the robin, the swallow, and the dabchick.

Going against the grain of capitalism, and advocating an economy founded on the Christian principles of honor, justice, and charity, the author, one of the most influential minds of the Victorian era, offers the essays “The Roots of Honour,” “The Veins of Wealth,” “Qui Judicatis Terram,” and “Ad Valorem.”

« Sois heureux, ô désert aride ; que le désert se réjouisse, et fleurisse comme le lys ; que les lieux stériles du Jourdain se couvrent de verdure. » (Esaïe. XXXV, i — Septante.)   Il sera peut-être...

The title of this book,-or, more accurately, of its subject;-for no author was ever less likely than I have lately become, to hope for perennial pleasure to his readers from what has cost himself the most pains,-will be, perhaps, recognised by some as the last clause of the line chosen from Keats...

Ah, masters of modern science, give me back my Athena out of your vials, and seal, if it may be, once more, Asmodeus therein. You have divided the elements, and united them; enslaved them upon the earth, and discerned them in the stars. Teach us now, but this of them, which is all that man need know,-that...

Early Renaissance, Roman Renaissance, Grotesque Renaissance, Conclusion, Architect of the Ducal Palace, Theology of Spenser, Austrian Government in Italy, Date of the Palaces of the Byzantine Renaissance, Renaissance Side of Ducal Palace, Character of the Doge Michele Morosini, Modern Education, Early Venetian Marriages, Character of the Venetian Aristocracy,

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« Sois heureux, ô désert aride ; que le désert se réjouisse, et fleurisse comme le lys ; que les lieux stériles du Jourdain se couvrent de verdure. »...

As one or two questions, asked of me since the publication of this work, have indicated points requiring elucidation, I have added a few short notes in the first Appendix. It is not, I think, desirable otherwise to modify the form or add to the matter of a book as it passes through successive editions;...