 | John Ruskin - 1877 - 172 pages
...Venetian acknowledged for all devoirs of commerce and of war ; writing, by his church, of the Rialto's business, (the first words, these, mind you, that...in lovelier letters, above the place of St. Mark's Rest, — " Brave be the living, who live unto the Lord ; For Blessed are the dead, that die in Him."... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1877 - 434 pages
...the true safety of this place." (In case of mercantile panics, you see.) On the band beneath it — "Around this temple, let the merchant's law be just — his weights true, and his agreements guileless." Those, so please you, are the first words of Venice to the mercantile world... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1877 - 478 pages
...the true safety of this place." (In case of mercantile panics, you see.) On the band beneath it — " Around this temple, let the merchant's law be just — his weights true, and his agreements guileless." Those, so please you, are the first words of Venice to the mercantile world... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1877 - 216 pages
...to oppose to it, the first commercial words of Venice, discovered by me in her first church :— " Around this temple, let the Merchant's law be just, his weights true, and his contracts guileless." If any of my present readers think that my language in this note is either intemperate,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1879 - 48 pages
...Venetian acknowledged for all devoirs of commerce and pf war ; .writing, by his church, of the Rialto's business, (the first words, these, mind you, that...in lovelier letters, above the place of St. Mark's Rest, — " Brave be the living, who live unto the Lord ; For Blessed are the dead, that die in Him."... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1884 - 196 pages
...is, it will be remembered, on the Church of St. Giacomo di Rialto, and runs, being interpreted—" Around this temple, let the merchant's law be just, his weights true, and his covenants faithful." —bright with banner and shield and dragon prow,—instead of these you may be happier, but are not... | |
 | 1885 - 778 pages
...knew. — Whittier. A VEUY ancient inscription on the Church of S. Giacomo di Rialto, Venice, runs: " Around this temple let the merchant's law be just, his weights true, and his covenants faithful." John Ruskin was the first to discover this beautiful line, and he says it is " the pride of my life... | |
 | John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 610 pages
...on the church of St. James of the Rialto: "Be thy Cross, O Christ, the true safety of this place." " Around this temple, let the merchant's law be just — his weights true, and his agreements guileless."— .For*, IV., p. 17. ENGLISH RELIGION A MOCKERY.— Notably, within the last... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 818 pages
...is, it will be remembered, on the Church of St. Giacomo di Rialto, and runs, being interpreted — " Around this temple, let the merchant's law be just, his weights true, and his covenants faithful." but entirely seaworthy vessels, manned by the best seamen in the then world. Of course, now, at Chatham... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1889 - 296 pages
...profession, bearing in mind only the inscription on the Church of St. Giacomo de Eialto at Venice: " Around this temple let the merchant's law be just, his weights true, and his covenants faithful." 1 If life has been sacrificed to the rolling up of money for its own sake, the very means by which... | |
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Around this Temple, let the Merchant's law be just, his weights true, and his covenants faithful. 
