 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 pages
...ignoble persons, and it is a sign of the last depravity in the Church itself, when it assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either purity of character,...To teach that there is no device in the grave, may indeed make the deviceless person more contented in his dulness ; but it will make the deviser only... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 296 pages
...ignoble persons; and it is a sign of the last depravity in the Church itself, when it assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either purity of character,...conclusive reason for wasting the space of it which may 2 be granted him ; nor does the anticipation of death, to-morrow, suggest, to anyone but a drunkard,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 680 pages
...it assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either purity of character, or energy of hand.4 The shortness of life is not, to any rational person,...drunkenness to-day. To teach that there is no device in the grave,5 may indeed make the deviceless person more contented in his dulness : but it will make the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 700 pages
...it assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either purity of character, or energy of hand.4 The shortness of life is not, to any rational person,...drunkenness to-day. To teach that there is no device in the grave,6 may indeed make the deviceless person more contented in his dulness : but it will make the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 680 pages
...it assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either purity of character, or energy of hand.4 The shortness of life is not, to any rational person,...drunkenness to-day. To teach that there is no device in the grave,5 may indeed make the deviceless person more contented in his dulness : but it will make the... | |
 | Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - 1906 - 308 pages
...inconsistent with neither " purity of character nor energy of hand." " The shortness of life," he says, " is not to any rational person a conclusive reason...a drunkard, the expediency of drunkenness to-day." Ruskin indeed pours out some words of burning sarcasm against those who profess a brave belief in eternal... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1907 - 296 pages
...ignoble persons; and it is a sign of the last depravity in the Church itself, when it assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either purity of character,...conclusive reason for wasting the space of it which may 2 be granted him ; nor does the anticipation of death, to-morrow, suggest, to anyone but a drunkard,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1907 - 460 pages
...persons ; and it is a sign of the last depravity in the Church itself, when it assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either purity of character,...energy of hand. The shortness of life is not, to any jsational. person, a conclusive reason for wasting the space of it which may be granted him ; nor does... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1907 - 404 pages
...persons ; and it is a sign of the last depravity in the Church itself, when it assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either purity of character, or energy of hand," and then extends his condolences to those "men for whom feebleness of sight, or bitterness of soul,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 pages
...persons, and it is a sign of the last depravity in the Church itself, when it 477 assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either purity of character,...To teach that there is no device in the grave, may indeed make the deviceless person more contented in his dulness; but it will make the deviser only... | |
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On the contrary, a brave belief in death has been assuredly held by many not ignoble persons, and it is a sign of the last depravity in the Church itself, when it assumes that such a belief is inconsistent with either purity of character, or energy of... 
