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" You might have the rivers of England as pure as the crystal of the rock; beautiful in falls, in lakes, in living pools; so full of fish that you might take them out with your hands instead of nets. Or you may do always as you have done now — turn every... "
The American Federationist - Page 34
1898
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Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, Volume 1

John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1871 - 626 pages
...neglect of the soil. You might have the rivers of England as pure as the crystal of the rock ; — beautiful in falls, in lakes, in living pools ; —...face out in the rain ; and even that falls dirty. Then for the third, Earth, — meant to be nourishing for you, and blossoming. You have learned, about...
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Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, Volume 1

John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1871 - 276 pages
...and neglect of the soil. You might have the rivers of England as pure as the crystal of the rock ; beautiful in falls, in lakes, in living pools ; so...face out in the rain ; and even that falls dirty. Then for the third, Earth, — meant to be nourishing for you, and blossoming. You have learned, about...
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Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, Volume 1

John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1871 - 140 pages
...neglect of the soil. You might have the rivers of England as pure as the crystal of the rock ; — beautiful in falls, in lakes, in living pools ; —...as baptize an English baby but with filth, unless yon hold its face out in the rain ; and even that falls dirty. Then for the third, Earth, — meant...
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Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology

John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - Art - 1886 - 600 pages
...BRITISH PHILISTINES.— You might have the rivers of England as pure as the crystal of the rock ;— beautiful in falls, in lakes, in living pools ; —...face out in the rain ; and even that falls dirty.— Fors, I., p. 69. You think it a great triumph to make the sun draw brown landscapes for you. That was...
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An Introduction to the Writings of John Ruskin

John Ruskin - Readers - 1890 - 276 pages
...neglect of the soil. You might have the rivers of England as pure as the crystal of the rock ; — beautiful in falls, in lakes, in living pools ; —...face out in the rain ; and even that falls dirty. Then for the third, Earth, — meant to be nourishing for you, and blossoming ... as far as your scientific...
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The Complete Works of John Ruskin, Volume 7

John Ruskin - 1891 - 464 pages
...soil. You might have the rivers of England as pure as the crystal of the rock ; FORS CLAVIOERA. 69 — beautiful in falls, in lakes, in living pools ; —...unless you hold its face out in the rain ; and even ///•'/ falls dirty. Then for the third, Earth, — meant to be nourishing for you, and blossoming....
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Essays and Letters

John Ruskin - Readers - 1894 - 504 pages
...neglect of the soil. You might have the rivers of England as pure as the crystal of the rock ; — beautiful in falls, in lakes, in living pools ; —...into a common sewer, so that you cannot so much as baptise an English baby but with filth, unless you hold its face out in the rain ; and even that falls...
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Essays and Letters

John Ruskin - Readers - 1894 - 558 pages
...have done now, turn every river of England into a common sewer, so that you cannot so much as baptise an English baby but with filth, unless you hold its...face out in the rain ; and even that falls dirty. Then for the third, Earth, — meant to be nourishing for you, and blossoming. You have learned about...
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The Canadian Magazine, Volume 8

J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1897 - 584 pages
...minute if you had nothing to do when you got there. He complains that they have turned every river in England into a common sewer, " so that you cannot...you hold its face out in the rain : and even that," he says, hitting at the coal smoke from boiler furnaces, — "even that falls dirty." In his fifth...
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English Essays

Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...woods and neglect of the soil. You might have the rivers of England as pure as the crystal of the rock; beautiful in falls, in lakes, in living pools; so full of fish that 5 you might take them out with your hands instead of nets. Or you may do always as you have done now...
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