 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1849 - 306 pages
...architecture of the nation shall be as commonly current, as frankly accepted, as its language or its coin. IV. A day never passes without our hearing our English...has never had rags enough on his back to keep out cold, to invent a new mode of cutting a coat. Give him a whole coat first, and let him concern himself... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...architecture of the nation shall be as commonly current, as frankly accepted, as its language or its coin. A day never passes without our hearing our English...as sensible and necessary an exhortation as to ask a man who has never had rags on his back to keep out cold, to invent a new mode of cutting a coat.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1866 - 456 pages
...architecture of the nation shall be as commonly current, as frankly accepted, as its language or its coin. IV. A day never passes without* our hearing our English...has never had rags enough on his back to keep out cold, to invent a new mode of cutting a coat. Give him a whole coat first, and let him concern himself... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...conceive and deal with breadth and solidity? — SLA ch. iii. § 23, 24. ORIGINALITY IN ARCHITECTURE. — A day never passes without our hearing our English...has never had rags enough on his back to keep out cold, to invent a new mode of cutting a coat. Give him a whole coat first, and let him concern himself... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...accepted, as its language or its coin. A day never passes without our hearing our English archi tects called upon to be original, and to invent a new style:...as sensible and necessary an exhortation as to ask a man who has never had rags on his back to keep out cold, to invent a new mode of cutting a coat.... | |
 | John Ruskin - Essays - 1884 - 504 pages
...ORIGINALITY IN ARCHITECTURE. — A day never passes without our hearing our English architects called upoii to be original, and to invent a new style : about...has never had rags enough on his back to keep out cold, to invent a new mode of cutting a coat. Give him a whole coat first, and let him concern himself... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 764 pages
...architecture of the nation shall be as commonly current, as frankly accepted, as its language or its coin. IV. A day never passes without our hearing our English...has never had rags enough on his back to keep out cold, to invent a new mode of cutting a coat. Give him a whole coat iirst, and let him concern himself... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1888 - 510 pages
...accepted, as its language or its coin A day never passes without our hearing our English archi tects called upon to be original, and to invent a new style:...as sensible and necessary an exhortation as to ask a man who has never had rags on his back to keep out cold, to invent a new mode of cutting a coat.... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1889 - 512 pages
...accepted, as its language or its coin A day never passes without our heaiing our English archi tects called upon to be original, and to invent a new style:...as sensible and necessary an exhortation as to ask a man who has never had rags on his back to keep out cold, to invent a new mode of cutting a coat.... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English essays - 1890 - 348 pages
...architecture of the nation shall be as commonly current, as frankly accepted, as its language or its coin. A day never passes without our hearing our English...as sensible and necessary an exhortation as to ask a man who has never had rags on his back to keep out cold, to invent a new mode of cutting a coat.... | |
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A day never passes without our hearing our English architects called upon to be original, and to invent a new style : about as sensible and necessary an exhortation as to ask of a man who has never had rags enough on his back to keep out cold, to invent... 
