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" London — has become hateful to me, because of the misery that I know of, and see signs of, where I know it not, which no imagination can interpret too bitterly. "
Socialists at Work - Page 260
by Robert Hunter - 1908 - 374 pages
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Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, Volume 1

John Ruskin - 1871 - 140 pages
...villanous beggary. For my own part, I will put up with this state of things, passively, not an hour longer. I am not an unselfish person, nor an Evangelical...it in another world. But I simply cannot paint, nor road, nor look at minerals, nor do any tlling else that I like, and the very light of the morning sky,...
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Appletons' Journal, Issues 276-301

1874 - 848 pages
...and the sound of all the evils which affect the world are too much for him. " I am not," he says, " an unselfish person, nor an evangelical one ; I have no particular pleasure in doing good, nor do I dislike doing it so much as to expect to be rewarded for it in another world. But I simply...
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Every Saturday

1874 - 532 pages
...sight and the sound of all the evils which affect the world is too much for him. " I am not," he says, "an unselfish person nor an evangelical one ; I have no particular pleasure in doing good, nor do I dislike doing it so much as to expect to be rewarded for it in another world. But I simply...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 122

1874 - 870 pages
...sight and the sound of all the evils which affect the world is too much for him. " I am not," he says, "an unselfish person nor an evangelical one ; I have no particular pleasure in doing good, nor do I dislike doing it so much as to expect to be rewarded for it in another world. But I simply...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 9

1874 - 898 pages
...and the sound of all the evils which affect the world is too much for him. ' I am not,1 he says, ' an unselfish person nor an evangelical one ; I have no particular pleasure in doing good, nor do I dislike doing it so much as to expect to be rewarded for it in another world. But I simply...
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John Ruskin: His Life and Work, Issue 68

William Smart - 1883 - 124 pages
...villanous begging. For my own part, I will put up with this state of things, passively, not an hour longer. I am not an unselfish person, nor an Evangelical...read, nor look at minerals, nor do anything else that Hike, and the very light of the morning sky, when there is any — which is seldom, now-a-days, near...
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Famous English Authors of the Nineteenth Century

Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1890 - 488 pages
...of his life, " St. George's Guild." He was moved to this work by the misery of England. He says, " I simply cannot paint, nor read, nor look at minerals, nor do anything else I like ; and the very light of the morning sky, when there is any — which is seldom nowadays near...
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The Life and Work of John Ruskin, Volume 2

William Gershom Collingwood - 1893 - 392 pages
...reading. It is not so much in the form of epigram, here in " Fors;" though there is epigram, as thus: " I am not an unselfish person, nor an Evangelical one;...to expect to be rewarded for it in another world." Then again of the sort of journalism he would like to see: " I cannot say whether it would ever pay...
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John Ruskin, Social Reformer

John Atkinson Hobson - 1898 - 366 pages
...life he saw around him were goading him to action. In one of the earliest letters he writes thus : " I cannot paint, nor read, nor look at minerals, nor...else that I like, and the very light of the morning sun has become hateful to me, because of the misery that I know of, and see signs of, where I know...
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Social Settlements

Charles Richmond Henderson - 1899 - 222 pages
...villainous beggary. " For my own part, I will put up with this state of things, passively, not an hour longer. I am not an unselfish person, nor an evangelical...rewarded for it in another world. But I simply cannot pr" ** nor read, ncr look at minerals, nor do anything else that I like, and the very light of the...
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