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... few days ' work was a state of weakened health , which I may be permitted to name among the causes of the slightness and imperfection of the present Essay . THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE . INTRODUCTORY . SOME years xii PREFACE .
... few days ' work was a state of weakened health , which I may be permitted to name among the causes of the slightness and imperfection of the present Essay . THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE . INTRODUCTORY . SOME years xii PREFACE .
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... causes of the many failures to which the efforts of intelligent men are liable , more especially in matters political , they seem to me more largely to spring from this single error than from all others , that the inquiry into the ...
... causes of the many failures to which the efforts of intelligent men are liable , more especially in matters political , they seem to me more largely to spring from this single error than from all others , that the inquiry into the ...
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... cause I think it the best mode of reaching ultimate truth , still less because I think the subject of more importance than many others ; but because every subject should surely , at a period like the present , be taken up in this spirit ...
... cause I think it the best mode of reaching ultimate truth , still less because I think the subject of more importance than many others ; but because every subject should surely , at a period like the present , be taken up in this spirit ...
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... cause me to believe it a good and just feeling , and as well - pleasing to God and honorable in men , as it is beyond all dispute necessary to the production of any great work in the kind with which we are at present concerned . III ...
... cause me to believe it a good and just feeling , and as well - pleasing to God and honorable in men , as it is beyond all dispute necessary to the production of any great work in the kind with which we are at present concerned . III ...
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... cause it indicated a feeling that would grudge the best of its possessions to Him who gave them ; and because it was a bold dishonoring of God in the sight of man . Whence it may be infallibly concluded , that in whatever offerings we ...
... cause it indicated a feeling that would grudge the best of its possessions to Him who gave them ; and because it was a bold dishonoring of God in the sight of man . Whence it may be infallibly concluded , that in whatever offerings we ...
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Strona 51 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Strona 73 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, "Behold, we knew it not;" doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
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Strona 38 - Walk about Zion, and go round about her : Tell the towers thereof. Mark ye well her bulwarks, Consider her palaces ; That ye may tell it to the generation following : For this God is our God for ever and ever : He will be our guide even unto death.
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Strona 172 - Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us.