 ... and perfect precision; and you find his work perfect of its kind: but if you ask him to think about any of those forms, to consider if he cannot find any better in his own head, he stops; his execution becomes hesitating; he thinks, and ten to one...  Bombay Quarterly Review - Page 2371855Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1853 - 456 pages
...execution becomes hesitating ; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong ; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking...that. He was only a machine before, an animated tool. § xII. And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...execution becomes hesitating ; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong ; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking...that. He was only a machine before, an animated tool. Ruskin. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work, and done his best ; but... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 458 pages
...execution becomes hesitating; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong ; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking...that. He was only a machine before, an animated tool. § xn. And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 470 pages
...execution becomes hesitating; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong ; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking being. But you have made a man of him for all •hat. »He was only a machine before, an animated tool. And observe, you are put to stern choice... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1873 - 460 pages
...execution becomes hesitating; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking...that. He was only a machine before, an animated tool. § xu. And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 456 pages
...execution becomes hesitating; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong; ten to QPO. jig makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking being. But you have made a man of him •^ Vl'J that He was only a machine before, an animated, too]. ( § xn. And observe, you are put to... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1886 - 188 pages
...execution becomes hesitating ; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong ; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking...that. He was only a machine before, an animated tool. . . . Go forth again to gaze upon the old cathedral front, where you have smiled so often at the fantastic... | |
 | John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 610 pages
...execution becomes hesitating ; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong ; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking...that. He was only a machine before, an animated tool. . . . Go forth again to gaze upon the old cathedral front, where you have smiled so often at the fantastic... | |
 | John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 600 pages
...execution becomes hesitating ; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong ; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking...of him for all that. He was only a machine before, /in animated tool. . . . Go forth again to gaze upon the old cathedral front, •where you have smiled... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 504 pages
...execution becomes hesitating ; he thinks, and ten to one he thinks wrong; ten to one he makes a mistake in the first touch he gives to his work as a thinking...observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. Yon must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended... | |
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