Fors clavigera : letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1894)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Bryan, Taylor · leaf 318
but the horse-tail and crescent are not less definitely symbolicto the Ottoman. So, the early forms of ornament are nearly-alike, among all nations of any capacity for design : they putmeaning into them afterwards, if they ever come themselvesto have any meaning. Vibrate but the point of a tool…
Labor -- Great Britain · Conduct of life · Aesthetics · Social problems · Great Britain -- Social conditions 19th century
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