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Fors clavigera : letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1896)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Sunnyside, Orpington [England] : G. Allen · leaf 320

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s, as in wood, butlike rising, sharp, cliff-edged harbours with flat bottoms of sand;as little of the hard rock being cut away as may be. + [Thus in the original edition of 1876.—Ed.J 3IO FORS CLAVIGERA piece of Lombardic writing, of about the eleventhcentury,—(I shall not say where the original… … uprightness, and exquisite use of the diamond-shaped touches obtained by mere pressure on thepoint, it is a model not to be surpassed; standingprecisely half-way between old Latin letters andmediaeval Gothic* The legend of it is— Fides catholica edita ab Athana-sio Alexandrie sedis episcopo * [As…

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