 ... signs of life, but sources of beauty. No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression,...  Healthy Life and Hydropathic News - Page 371883Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1853 - 1042 pages
...change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.' ART. IV. — Memorials and Correspondence of diaries Janet Fox. Edited by Lord John Russell. Vols.... | |
 | Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 pages
...change— and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality; all things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be effort, and the law of human judgment mercy." Now it is the desire to lose sight of their contrast or imperfection of one part, and perfection on... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1854 - 104 pages
...change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. Accept this then for an universal law, that neither architecture nor any other noble work of man can... | |
 | 1854 - 738 pages
...eUfrom На cheapness. iu oí ц the Life of a Daughter at Home, THE EDINBURGH CHRISTIAN MAGAZINE. " All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...life may be effort, and the law of human judgment tuercy." — liuskin. " Affliction (to the believer) ¡9 like the wind in the trees, — making them... | |
 | 1855 - 528 pages
...change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy." The principle of truth in architecture will, however, be chiefly shewn in the expression of the thoughts... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...a better reason to justify it before God, than having a certain number of pounds a year. Oakfield. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1858 - 336 pages
...enjoining us to aim at what is highest, " imperfection is in some sort essential to all we know of life ; all things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be effort, and the law of human judgment mercy." So by this lesson we are taught to value higher than before * Crabbe. every Children's Bower, and the... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 pages
...change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. SUBLIMITY. Impressions of awe and sorrow being at the root of the sensation of sublimity, and the beauty... | |
 | Book, H. A. - 1865 - 184 pages
...change ; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. RUSKIN. LIGHT AND SHADE. 2Bo Diel Sidjt ifi, ifi flarfer ©djatten. GOETHE. INFANCY OF PEOPLES AND... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 pages
...; and to (...in I, imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyse vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more...appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, tuid the law of human judgment, Mercy. SUBLIMITY. Impressions of awe and sorrow being at the root of... | |
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