 | John Ruskin - 1865 - 302 pages
...close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries of right character, in the two great offices of the...a man can have is therefore to be Blind. The most nnpastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed, — to be a Mouth. Take the two reverses together,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1866 - 154 pages
...close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries of right character, in the two great offices of the...a man can have is therefore to be Blind. The most impastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed, — to be a Mouth. Take the two reverses together,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 144 pages
...close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries of right character, in the two great offices of the...most unpastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed,—to be a Mouth. Take the two reverses together, and you have " blind mouths." We may advisably... | |
 | 1870 - 244 pages
...of his fiock, and was addressed to these •a rulers of the church as well as teachers. Jacobus. — A bishop means a person who sees; a pastor means one...unpastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed. The bishop's office is to oversee the flock, to number it sheep by sheep, to be ready always to give... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 268 pages
...close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries of right character in the two great offices of the...bishop " means " a person who sees." A "pastor " means "a person who feeds." The most unbishoply character a man can have is therefore to be blind. The most... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 212 pages
...close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries of right character, in the two great offices of the...Bishop " means " a person who sees." A " Pastor " means " a person who feeds." The most unbishoply character a man can have is therefore to be Blind. The most... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 216 pages
...close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries of right character, in the two great offices of the...Bishop " means " a person who sees." A " Pastor " means " a person who feeds." The most unbishpply character a man can have is therefore to be Blind. The most... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1881 - 588 pages
...is easy to write such sentences as these: 'A bishop means a person who sees. A parson means a person who feeds. The most unbishoply character a man can...feeding, to want to be fed — to be a mouth. Take the i two reverses together, and you have blind j mouths.' We have heard all this before. It becomes tiresome.... | |
 | 1881 - 552 pages
...easy to write such sentences as these: ' A bishop means a person who sees. A parson means a person who feeds. The most unbishoply character a man can have is therefore to be blind. The most uupastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed—to be a mouth. Take the two reverses together,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1884 - 434 pages
...again, for this is a strange expression; a broken metaphor one might think, careless and unscholarly. A Bishop means a person who sees. A Pastor means one...most unpastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed,—to be a Mouth. Take the two reverses together, and you have " blind mouths." We may advisably... | |
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Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries of right character, in the two great offices of the Church— those of bishop and pastor. A "Bishop 
