 To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray — these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power of doing these, and they never will...  Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 494by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oxford univ, exam. papers, scholarships - 122 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now ; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to...doing these, they never will have power to do more. 2. But the great record for the outward life of a man who has left such a record of his lofty inward... | |
 | William Lovett - Conduct of life - 1853 - 496 pages
...AMUSEMENTS. to man have been just as possible to him since first he was made of the earth as they are now. To watch the corn grow and the blossoms set, to draw hard breath over ploughshare and spade, to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray ; these are the things that make men happy."... | |
 | 1856 - 870 pages
...and increasing the power of production, as things utterly useless for any great or noble purpose. " To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to...have always had the power of doing these, they never icill have power to do more. The world's prosperity or adversity depends upon our knowing and teaching... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 452 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now ; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw...read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these arc the things that make men happy ; they have always had the power of doing these, they never will... | |
 | Andrew James Symington - Aesthetics - 1857 - 374 pages
...are now, and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. . . To watch the corn grow and the blossom set, to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade,...to love, to hope, to pray — these are the things to make man happy ; they have always had the power of doing these, they never will have power to do... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw...or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray,—these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power of doing these, they... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow and tho blossom set, to draw hard breath over ploughshare and spade, to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray — these are the things to make man happy ; they have always had the power of doing these— they never will have power to... | |
 | Richard St. John Tyrwhitt - 1864 - 128 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow and the blossoms set; to draw...or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray,—these are the things that make men happy; they have always had the power of doing these, they... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1867 - 502 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade ; t( read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy ; they... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...since first he was made of the earth, as they are now; and they are possible to him chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set ; to...draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade ; to read, tojhink, tojlove, to hope, to pray, — these_arfi_the things that make men happy ; they have "always... | |
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