 | 1907 - 710 pages
...St.Mark's Rest. "Great Nations" he says, "write their autobiographies in three manuscripts — the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and...trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune ; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children; but its... | |
 | American Society for the Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 304 pages
...VENICE. " The Stones of Venice." " Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts : the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and...three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. ' ' " Prime model of a Christian commonwealth, Thou wise simplicity, which present men Calumniate,... | |
 | Gustav Stickley - 1909 - 822 pages
...write their autobiography in three manuscripts : the book of their words; the book of their deeds, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the other two, but of the three, the only one quite trustworthy is the last. The acts of a nation may be... | |
 | 1901 - 824 pages
...write their autobiography in three manuscripts : the book of their words ; the book of their deeds ; the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the other two, but of the three the only one quite trustworthy is the last. The acts of a nation may be... | |
 | 1886 - 112 pages
...Jlrf cmb " GREAT nations," it has been said, " write their autobiographies in three manuscripts : the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art." Those who attend the University Extension lectures have, like other students, lessons from history... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1928 - 312 pages
...base ones. (Munera Pidveris.) Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts: — the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. (St Mark's Rest.) The entire purpose of a great thinker may be difficult to fathom, and we may be over... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - 1896 - 1090 pages
...be eternal ? Buskin said, "Great Nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, — the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. ' ' As we learn wisdom from the past, you will pardon me if I ask your attention for a moment to lessons... | |
 | 1911 - 878 pages
...culture. As Ruskin has well said: "Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts — the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art . . but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. . . [for art can be triumphant] only... | |
 | 1898 - 580 pages
...writing of any piece of literature. "Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts: the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art." Professor White delights to show how exquisitely the changing sentiments of an age is recorded in its... | |
 | 1914 - 882 pages
...living — the child's education should include the last of the three "manuscripts." Ruskin continues: "Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the other two, but of the three the only one quite trustworthy is the last — that of art." Art thus becomes... | |
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GREAT nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts — the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others ; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy... 
