item: #1 of 4 id: 12933 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great date: None words: 72765 flesch: 78 summary: THOMAS CARLYLE One comfort is that great men taken up in any way are profitable company. Occasionally these articles were duly fathered by great men, as this gave them the required specific gravity. keywords: america; author; beauty; books; boy; carlyle; children; church; country; day; death; dickens; dollars; edison; england; fact; father; form; friend; genius; george; gladstone; god; goldsmith; good; grave; great; green; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; hugo; ireland; left; life; little; london; look; love; man; men; mind; mother; mrs; new; night; number; people; place; plain; play; poet; public; read; room; ruskin; shakespeare; shop; sir; street; swift; thackeray; things; think; thought; time; truth; turner; victor; village; way; white; wife; william; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 12933.txt plain text: 12933.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 13076 author: Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom) title: The Life of John Ruskin date: None words: 101544 flesch: 66 summary: [Footnote 4: What a beauty of a man he is! wrote old Mr. Ruskin, and high in intellect.... And it was intensely painful for a son who had never given his father a pang that could be avoided, as old Mr. Ruskin had once written, to find his father, with one foot in the grave, turning against him. keywords: alps; art; august; author; book; business; carlyle; chapter; church; college; coniston; course; day; days; drawing; england; family; father; footnote; form; fors; friends; george; good; great; guild; hand; health; hill; home; house; interest; john; john ruskin; june; know; lady; later; lecture; left; letters; life; light; like; london; look; love; man; march; men; mind; miss; morning; mother; mrs; museum; nature; new; oxford; painters; people; picture; place; power; professor; public; read; room; ruskin; school; set; sir; society; son; stones; studies; study; style; subject; summer; things; thought; time; turner; venice; view; visit; volume; way; work; working; world; writing; years; young; | | cache: 13076.txt plain text: 13076.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 22230 author: Ruskin, John title: Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston date: None words: 33237 flesch: 88 summary: * * Do you know, Susie, everything that has happened to me (and the leaf I sent you this morning may show you it has had some hurting in it) is _little_ in comparison to the crushing and depressing effect on me, of what I learn day by day as I work on, of the cruelty and ghastliness of the _nature_ Indeed you are a naughty little Susie to think such things. keywords: birds; bit; book; brantwood; coming; day; days; footnote; fors; good; having; hope; kind; letter; life; look; love; mind; miss; morning; night; people; pleasure; pretty; saw; susie; things; thought; time; venice; want; way; work; writing; year; yesterday cache: 22230.txt plain text: 22230.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 39283 author: Ruskin, John title: Letters to the Clergy on the Lord's Prayer and the Church date: None words: 56570 flesch: 73 summary: Reasonable, business-like people would ask, why did I not make an effort to rescue my little barque out of the general wreckage, and why did I not, remembering that Mr. Ruskin had with much kindness freely bestowed the copyright on me, save the second edition and arrange with another publisher to carry the work on? Passing over several very pleasant meetings in London, let it be sufficient to mention that under the impulse of Mr. George Allen's encouragement, and cheered by the valuable assistance and co-operation of another friend, Mr. T. J. Wise, I agreed to carry forward this Third Edition with the full approbation and consent of Mr. Ruskin himself, though it should be said that on account of the state of his health, I have been unable to consult him on any of the details of the publication. keywords: 8vo; answer; book; christ; christian; church; clergy; clergyman; cloth; crown; day; edition; england; english; father; friend; god; good; gospel; heart; holy; human; kingdom; letters; life; lord; love; man; men; mind; money; nature; people; power; prayer; present; question; right; ruskin; sin; sins; son; state; teaching; thee; things; thought; thy; time; truth; use; usury; way; words; work; world cache: 39283.txt plain text: 39283.txt