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Fifty years of work without wages : (laborare est orare) (1912)

Rowley, Charles · London ; New York : Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 199

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did, or when we rambled round thefields, or went on a jaunt to see one of hisbeloved churches, or bridges, or ancient houses.Most of all was his gusto at the perennial loveli-ness of river, field, and foliage. How he deploredthe growing shabbiness of the countryside, whereeverything that costs… … William Morris the exuberance of producing some of the loveliesttowns and churches anywhere to be found, butnow in a competitive struggle which is not onlyagainst Nature development, but prevents themkeeping up the old state of country calm, beauty,and content. All that provoked Morris themore to…

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