Ruskin: 137 books

It may perhaps be thought, that in prefacing a manual of drawing, I ought to expatiate on the reasons why drawing should be learned; but those reasons appear to me so many and so weighty, that I cannot quickly state or enforce them. With the reader's permission, as this volume is too large already,...

America’s First Great Eclipse takes readers on a thrilling historical journey, revealing that nineteenth-century Americans were just as excited about a total solar eclipse as we are today ... and, like us, were willing to travel thousands of miles to see it. The upcoming total solar eclipse...

CONTENTS. • AUTHOR'S ORIGINAL PREFACE. • THE HARBORS OF ENGLAND.1 I. Dover34 II. Ramsgate36 III. Plymouth38 IV. Catwater40 V. Sheerness41 VI. Margate43 VII. Portsmouth46 VIII. Falmouth49 IX. Sidmouth51 X. Whitby52 XI. Deal54 XII. Scarborough56

Since the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set upon its sands: the thrones of Tyre, Venice, and England. Of the First of these great powers only the memory remains; of the Second, the ruin; the Third, which inherits their greatness,...

It was originally intended that this Work should consist of two volumes only; the subject has extended to three. The second volume, however, will conclude the account of the ancient architecture of Venice. The third will embrace the Early, the Roman, and the Grotesque Renaissance; and an Index, which,...

Ce livre offre une splendide description de l’architecture de Venise avec quelques belles envolées poétiques très bien traduites par Mathilde Crémieux. Un merveilleux guide d’une ville, avec des informations intéressantes et des références de premier ordre. ll n’est pas étonnant que ce livre ait été un ouvrage de référence pendant longtemps.

The following lectures were really given, in substance, at a girls' school (far in the country); which, in the course of various experiments on the possibility of introducing some better practice of drawing into the modern scheme of female education, I visited frequently enough to enable the children...

It may be proved, with much certainty, that God intends no man to live in this world without working: but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work. It is written, "in the sweat of thy brow," but it was never written, "in the breaking of thine...

“Meinie” is an old English word for “many”—“in the sense of ‘a many’ persons attending one, as bridesmaids,” the author explains in a preface. This 1873 work looks at avian life through the eyes of both a poet and scientist, compiling lectures delivered at Oxford on the robin, the swallow, and the dabchick.

Going against the grain of capitalism, and advocating an economy founded on the Christian principles of honor, justice, and charity, the author, one of the most influential minds of the Victorian era, offers the essays “The Roots of Honour,” “The Veins of Wealth,” “Qui Judicatis Terram,” and “Ad Valorem.”

« Sois heureux, ô désert aride ; que le désert se réjouisse, et fleurisse comme le lys ; que les lieux stériles du Jourdain se couvrent de verdure. » (Esaïe. XXXV, i — Septante.)   Il sera peut-être...

The title of this book,-or, more accurately, of its subject;-for no author was ever less likely than I have lately become, to hope for perennial pleasure to his readers from what has cost himself the most pains,-will be, perhaps, recognised by some as the last clause of the line chosen from Keats...