There is dreaming enough, and earthiness enough, and sensuality enough in human existence without our turning the few glowing moments of it into mechanism ; and since our life must at the best be but a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes... Works - Strona 162autor: John Ruskin - 1887Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Albert Barnes - 1841 - Liczba stron: 388
...agonizing pain, how soon it is all gone ! Whether we are rich or poor, honored or dishonored, life is like a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. Of what importance can it be to the vapor that you see in the morning as it lies on the mountain side,... | |
| 1848 - Liczba stron: 460
...fourscore years. Hours, days, months, and years glide imperceptihly away, and the longest life is hut a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. As for ourselves, hut a hrief space will he passed, when I must come and sleep hy the side of my child,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1849 - Liczba stron: 306
...give grinding organs to Heaven's angels, to make their music easier. There is dreaming enough, and earthiness enough, and sensuality enough in human...mechanism ; and since our life must at the best be but a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away, let it at least appear as a cloud in... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - Liczba stron: 504
...a will ; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. There is dreaming enough, and earthiness enough, and sensuality enough in human...life must at the best be but a vapor that appears but for a little time and then vanishes away, let it at least appear as a cloud in the height of Heaven,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1859 - Liczba stron: 504
...with a will; and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. There is dreaming enough, and earthiness enough, and sensuality enough in human...life must at the best be but a vapor that appears but for a little time and then vanishes away, let it at least appear as a cloud in the height of Heaven,... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - Liczba stron: 496
...and what is not worth this effort is not to be done at all. There is dreaming enough, and carthiness enough, and sensuality enough in human existence,...life must at the best be but a vapor that appears but for a little time and then vanishes away, let it at least appear as a cloud in the height of Heaven,... | |
| 1864 - Liczba stron: 780
...and get gain ; 14 (whereas ye know not what belongs to the morrow; for what is your life? for ye are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away ;) instead of saying : If the Lord 15 wil^ we shall both live, and1 do this or that. But now ye glory... | |
| Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - Liczba stron: 284
...give grinding organs to Heaven's angels, to make their music easier. There is dreaming enough, and earthiness enough, and sensuality enough in human...mechanism ; and since our life must at the best be but a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away, let it at least appear as a cloud in... | |
| Alexander Hay Japp - 1865 - Liczba stron: 284
...grinding organs to Heaven's angels, to make their music easier. There is dreaming enough, and earthiuess enough, and sensuality enough in human existence without...mechanism; and since our life must at the best be but a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away, let it at least appear as a cloud in... | |
| 1865 - Liczba stron: 802
...and get gain; 14 (whereas ye know not what belongs to the morrow; for what is your life? for ye are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away;) instead of saying: If the Lord 15 will, we shall both live, and do this or that. But now. ye glory... | |
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