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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 445

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h all its legs of differ-ent lengths, and by a variety of neat little wooden chairs, allvery peculiarly uncomfortable, and amazingly full of earwigs :the whole being surrounded by a garden full of flints, burntbricks, and cinders, with some water in the middle, and afountain in the middle of it,… … THE COTTAGE. 27 making themselves uncomfortable in one of these ingeniousconceptions, under the idea that they are living in a Swisscottage, that they labour under a melancholy deception ; andshall now proceed to investigate the peculiarities of the realbuilding. The life of a Swiss peasant is…

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