 | John Ruskin - 1877 - 56 Seiten
...understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good...the general gifts and common sympathies of the race. Again, the policy of a nation may be compelled, and, therefore, not indicative of its true character.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1877 - 172 Seiten
...understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good...the general gifts and common sympathies of the race. Again, the policy of a nation may be compelled, and, therefore, not indicative of its true character.... | |
 | 1912 - 720 Seiten
...understood unless we read the two others but of the three the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good...general gifts and common sympathies of the race." There is certainly no other way so readily to become acquainted with other civilization, other manners,... | |
 | John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 600 Seiten
...understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good...the general gifts and common sympathies of the race. — St. Mark's -Rest, p. 3. An artist is a person who has submitted to a law which it was painful to... | |
 | 1886 - 376 Seiten
...understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good...general gifts and common sympathies of the race.— St. Mark's Rest. ST. MARK'S. A sea-borne vase of alabaster full of incense of prayers ; and a purple... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1886 - 188 Seiten
...understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good...the general gifts and common sympathies of the race, — tit. Mark's Rest, p. 8. An artist is a person who has submitted to a law which it was painful to... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1886 - 188 Seiten
...understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good...of a few of its children : but its art, only by the I general gifts and common sympathies of the race, — ' St. Mark's Jlest, p. 3. An artist is a person... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 282 Seiten
...last. The acts of a. nation may be trinmphant by its good fortune ; and its words mighty by the genins of a few of its children : but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race. Again, the policy of a nation may be compelled, and, therefore, not indicative of its true character.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 446 Seiten
...understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good...the general gifts and common sympathies of the race. Again, the policy of a nation may be compelled, and, therefore, not indicative of its true character.... | |
 | John Lyman Faxon - 1891 - 56 Seiten
...three manuscripts, — the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art." "The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good...of a few of its children ; but its' art, only./«/ the general (/iff s and common sympathies of the race." (I have italicized the words to give added... | |
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GREAT nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts — the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy... 
