 Fire!' is given; and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest!...  The Living Age - Page 2371918Full view - About this book
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1881 - 158 pages
...quarrel ? Busy as the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough apart ; were the entires! strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot." It is not conservatism nor anything insular that writes to Goethe : " Let nations, as individuals,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Prussia (Germany) - 1882 - 230 pages
...place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcases, which it must bury, and anon shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' — Sartor Resartus. IOO. Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle must not, and shall not,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1882 - 226 pages
...place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcases, which it must bury, and anon shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as...another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot/—Sartor Resartus. 100. Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle must not, and shall... | |
 | Granville series - 1882 - 330 pages
...entirest strangers ; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some rnutmJ helpfulness between them. How then ? Simpleton, their...had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot. THE DRUM. ar-id, dry ; parched. England and Scotland. wold, open country ; pasture- They are famous... | |
 | David Thomas - 1883 - 472 pages
...anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel 1 Busy as the devil is, not the smallest They lived far apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide...had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot ^he ftodter'0 Ja00tng Jell: BEING IN MEMORIAM SKETCHES OF MINISTERS RECENTLY DEPARTED. ARCHBISHOP TAIT.... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1884 - 434 pages
...place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcases, which it must bury, and anon shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel ? Busy as...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' (Sartor Resartus.) Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle must not, and shall not, ultimately... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1885 - 410 pages
...fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. "Straightway the word " Fire! " is given, and they blow the devil is, not the smallest ! They lived far enough...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' (Sartor Resartus.) Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle must not, and shall not, ultimately... | |
 | John Brown - 1885 - 550 pages
...Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! Their Governors had fallen-out, and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.—Alas, so is it in Deutschland, and hitherto in all other lands; still as of old, " what devilry... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1886 - 840 pages
...imallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a universe, there wag even, unconsciously, by commerce, some mutual helpfulness...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' (Sartor Resartus.) Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle must not, and shall not, ultimately... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 840 pages
...useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcas s, wliich it must bury, and anon shed tears for. Hitd these men any quarrel ? Busy as the devil is, not...the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.' (Sartor Resartus.) Positively, then, gentlemen, the game of battle must not, and shall not, ultimately... | |
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