 We talk of peace and learning, and of peace and plenty, and of peace and civilization ; but I found that those were not the words which the Muse of History coupled together : that on her lips, the words were — peace and sensuality, peace and selfishness,...  The Idea of a League of Nations - Page 42by Herbert George Wells, Edward Grey Grey of Fallodon (Viscount), Lionel Curtis, William Archer, Henry Wickham Steed, Alfred Zimmern, John Alfred Spender, James Bryce Bryce (Viscount), Gilbert Murray - 1919 - 44 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - 1873 - 230 pages
...virtues of civil life flourished together, I found to be wholly untenable. Peace and the vices of civil life only flourish together. We talk of peace and...were not the words which the Muse of History coupled to- « gether : that, on her lips, the words were — peace, and sensuality — peace, and selfishness... | |
 | John Ruskin - Prussia (Germany) - 1874 - 164 pages
...of civil life flourished together, I found, to be wholly untenable. Peace and the ^ vices of civil life only flourish together. We talk of peace and...of peace and plenty, and of peace and civilisation ; Lut I found that those were not the words which the Muse of History coupled together : that on her... | |
 | Walter Senior - Sermons, English - 1880 - 388 pages
...talk of peace and learning, of peace and plenty, and of peace and civilization; but I found that these were not the words which the muse of history coupled together; that, on her lips, the words LECT. XI. Human nature paradoxical. Christian were — peace and sensuality, peace and selfishness,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1882 - 226 pages
...virtues of civil life flourished together, I found to be wholly untenable. Peace and the vices of civil life only flourish together. We talk of peace and...History coupled together : that, on her lips, the words were—peace, and sensuality — peace, and selfishness — peace, and death. I found, in brief, that... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1884 - 434 pages
...virtues of civil life flourished together, I found to be wholly untenable. Peace and the vices of civil life only flourish together. We talk of peace and...learning, and of peace and plenty, and of peace and civilization ; but I found that those were not the words which the Muse of History coupled together... | |
 | John Ruskin - Books and reading - 1885 - 410 pages
...virtues of civil life flourished together, I found to be wholly untenable. Peace and the vices of civil life only flourish together. We talk of peace and...learning, and of peace and plenty, and of peace and civilization ; but I found that those were not the words which the Muse of History coupled together... | |
 | John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - Art - 1886 - 600 pages
...virtues of civil life nourished together, I found, to be wholly untenable. Peace and the vices of civil life only flourish together. We talk of peace and...learning, and of peace and plenty, and of peace and civilization; but I found that those were not the words which the Muse of History coupled together... | |
 | JOHN RUSKIN - 1894 - 578 pages
...virtues of civil life flourished together, I found, to be wholly untenable. Peace and the vices of civil life only flourish together. We talk of peace and...History coupled together : that on her lips, the words were—peace and sensuality, peace and selfishness, peace and corruption, peace and death. I found,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Industries - 1895 - 236 pages
...virtues of civil life flourished together, I found to be wholly untenable. Peace and the vices of civil life only flourish together. We talk of peace and...learning, and of peace and plenty, and of peace and civilization ; but I found that those •were not the words which the Muse of History coupled together... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1896 - 820 pages
...virtues of civil life flourished together, I found to be wholly untenable. Peace and the vices of civil life only flourish together. We talk of peace and learning and of peace and plenty and of peace and civilization; but I found that those were not the words which the Muse of history coupled together;... | |
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