Fors clavigera. Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1900)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston, Jefferson Press · leaf 227
er and as good a number—every one different in design, to everychapter, and beautifully gilded andpainted ones to the beginnings ofbooks ; all done for love, and teasingnobody. Now suppose the lawyersclerks, thus instructed to write decently,were appointed to write for us, fortheir present pay,… … FORS CLAVTOERA. 219 jiterally, by relieved mankind. Piu ridon le carte. Thepapers smile more, they might say, of such transfiguredlegal documents. Not a cheap literature, even then ; nor pleasing to myfriend the Glasgow Herald, who writes to me indignantly,but very civilly, (and I am obliged to…
Conduct of life · Aesthetics · Social problems
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