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" ... too bright, nor good, for human nature's daily food;" it is fitted in all its functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes... "
Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin - Page 60
by John Ruskin - 1884 - 479 pages
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Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at ..., Volume 32

American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1893 - 806 pages
...that cover the whole earth, who notices the tricksy play of light and shadow, who watches the sky, " sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes...in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity," he must believe that there is in nature that which is designed to convey thoughts to the human soul...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Volume 6

1850 - 590 pages
...for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,...is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or blessing to what is mortal is essential."* There is nothing contracted, nothing narrow here. We look...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 6

Medicine - 1850 - 588 pages
...for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heBrt, for the soothing it and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,...is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or blessing to what is mortal is essential."* There is nothing contracted, nothing narrow here. We look...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful—never the same for two moments together ; almost human in...its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet...
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Recollections of a Literary Life, Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it, and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,...its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is mortal is essential. And yet...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 580 pages
...for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing it, and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,...the same for two moments together ; almost human in i's passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what...
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The Wheat-sheaf, a Suggestive Reader: Containing Germs of Pure and Noble ...

Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious,...together : almost human in its passions, almost spiritual 10 it ' 2" in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us,...
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The Wheat-sheaf; Or, Gleanings for the Wayside and Fireside ...

American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...functions for the perpetual comfort and exalting of the heart, for the soothing and purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two momenta together : almost human in its passions, almost spiritual 20 It 21' OP THE OPEN SKY. in its...
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Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons, ...

Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 592 pages
...purifying it from its dross and dust. Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, STOBY OP THE HEAVEUS. 279 sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together;...spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its affinity; its appeal to what is immortal in us, is as distinct as its ministry of chastisement or of...
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Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons, ...

Mary Botham Howitt - Country life - 1854 - 584 pages
...together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its affinity; its appeal to what is immortal in us, is as distinct...ministry of chastisement or of blessing to what is moral is essential. And yet we never attend to it, we never make it a subject of thought, but as it...
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