 | John Ruskin - 1865 - 256 oldal
...very audacity and pithiness are intended to make us look close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries...most unpastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed, — to be a Mouth. Take the two reverses together, and you have " blind mouths." We may advisably... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1865 - 302 oldal
...audacity and pithiness are intended to '• \' make us look close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries...a man can have is therefore to be Blind. The most nnpastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed, — to be a Mouth. Take the two reverses together,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1866 - 154 oldal
...very audacity and pithiness are intended to make us look close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries...a man can have is therefore to be Blind. The most impastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed, — to be a Mouth. Take the two reverses together,... | |
 | 1870 - 244 oldal
...of his fiock, and was addressed to these •a rulers of the church as well as teachers. Jacobus. — A bishop means a person who sees; a pastor means one...most unpastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed. The bishop's office is to oversee the flock, to number it sheep by sheep, to be ready always to... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 220 oldal
...very audacity and pithiness are intended to make us look close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries...Bishop " means " a person who sees." A " Pastor " means " a person who feeds." The most unbishoply character a man can have is therefore to be Blind. The most... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 212 oldal
...very audacity and pithiness are intended to make us look close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries...Bishop " means " a person who sees." A " Pastor " means " a person who feeds." The most unbishoply character a man can have is therefore to be Blind. The most... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 268 oldal
...— those of bishop and pastor. A " bishop " means " a person who sees." A "pastor " means "a person who feeds." The most unbishoply character a man can...most unpastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed, — to be a mouth Take the two reverses together, and you have "blind mouths." We may advisably... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1880 - 216 oldal
...very audacity and pithiness are intended to make us look close at the phrase and remember it. Those two monosyllables express the precisely accurate contraries...Bishop " means " a person who sees." A " Pastor " means " a person who feeds." The most unbishpply character a man can have is therefore to be Blind. The most... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1881 - 588 oldal
...is easy to write such sentences as these: 'A bishop means a person who sees. A parson means a person who feeds. The most unbishoply character a man can...most unpastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed — to be a mouth. Take the i two reverses together, and you have blind j mouths.' We have heard... | |
 | 1881 - 552 oldal
...easy to write such sentences as these: ' A bishop means a person who sees. A parson means a person who feeds. The most unbishoply character a man can have is therefore to be blind. The most uupastoral is, instead of feeding, to want to be fed—to be a mouth. Take the two reverses together,... | |
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Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast. Blind mouths — " I pause again, for this is a strange expression ; a broken metaphor, one might think, careless and unscholarly. Not so : its very audacity and pithiness are intended to make us look close... 
