 | 1896 - 596 Seiten
...and it is this human interest that gives life and glow to archaeology. Mr. Ruskin has well said — " For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its " gold, Its glory is in its age, and in that deep sense of voice fulness, of stern " watching,... | |
 | C. M. Cleveland - 1897 - 72 Seiten
...recalling the Past, wherein lies the chief attraction, which old edifices possess over the minds of men, « for, indeed, the greatest « glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its « gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep « sense of voicefulness, of stern watching,... | |
 | John Fletcher Horne - 1900 - 400 Seiten
...water rising from its centre. CHAPTER III. THE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE OF POMPEII. " A time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them." — RUSKIN. THE architecture of a people is an important fragment of their history, whilst it is an... | |
 | 1901 - 686 Seiten
...our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, ns we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our...greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that deep sense of voicefulncss, of stern watching,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1902 - 422 Seiten
...our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our...them, and that men will say as they look upon the labour and wrought substance of them, "See ! this our fathers did for us." For, indeed, the greatest... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 452 Seiten
...our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our...them, and that men will say as they look upon the labour and wrought substance of them, " See ! this our fathers did for us." l For, indeed, the greatest... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 428 Seiten
...our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our...them, and that men will say as they look upon the labour and wrought substance of them, " See ! this our fathers did for us." l For, indeed, the greatest... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 426 Seiten
...our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our...them, and that men will say as they look upon the labour and wrought substance of them, " See I this our fathers did for us." l For, indeed, the greatest... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 428 Seiten
...held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labour and wrought substance of them, " See ! this our fathers did for us." l For, indeed, the greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, 1 [It will be remembered that... | |
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Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone ; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched... 
