A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)Ruskin, John
Philosophy
A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)
Ruskin, John
Art
Land, the laws of cultivation, the same for a continent as for an acre, 12.
-owners, their duties, 143.
Law and liberty, 123.
" most irksome, when most necessary, 15.
" principles of, applied to minor things, 123.
" should regulate everything it can, 126.
" systems of, none perfect, 124.
" to be protective, not merely punitive, 15.
Legislation, paternal, dialogue on, 121.
Leonardo da Vinci, an engineer, 21.
" " " pupil of Verrocchio, 46.
" " "work by, at Florence, 164.
Leonidas' death, 109.
Lewis, John, his work, and its prices, 102 n.
Liberalism in government, true, 58.
Liberty, law and, 123.
" to be interfered with, for good of nation, 123-26.
Life, battles of early, for men of genius, 23.
" ideal of, simplicity _plus_ imagination, 147.
Literature, cheap, modern, 65.
Lombard architecture at Pisa and Verona, 76.
London season, cost of, in dress, 55.
Look, people will not, at things, 141.
Lorenzetti, Ambrozio, his frescoes of "government" at Siena, 57.
Love and Kingship, _see_ s. Charity.
Luxury, articles of, as "property," 146.
" does not add to wealth, 48.
" the influences of, 138.
Macaulay's false saying, "the giants of one age, the pigmies
of the next," 168.
Magnanimity, the virtue of, its full meaning, 60.
Mammon worship, in English commercial centres, 151.
Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition 1858, 5, 69.
" " motto of, "A joy for ever," 1880 _pref._
Mansfield Art Night Class, address to, 1873, 166 _seq._
Manufacture, defined, 169.
Marathon, 109.
Marble, a better material for sculpture than granite, 34.
Marriage, desire for, in girls, 55.
Medici, Pietro de, orders M. Angelo's snow-statue, 36.
Menippus, 3.
Metaphysical Society, author, May 4, 1875, reads paper at, 175.
Michael Angelo, author's praise of, 36.
" " Ghirlandajo's pupil, 46.
" " on Ghiberti's gates, 46.
" " snow-statue, 36.
Mill, J. S., on wealth, 145_n._
" " on women, 180.
Misery, always the result of indolence or mistaken industry, 7.
Mistress, of a house, ideal, described, 9, 10.
Modernism, contempt for poverty and honour of wealth, 1 seq.
_See_ s. Commerce, Education, England, Italy, Wealth.
Money, a document of title, 148.
" God's gift and not our own, and why, 116 _seq._
" great work never done for, 98, 102.
" spending, is to employ labour, 48.
" the way we spend it, important, 48-9.
Morality, mechanical basis of, 176.
" not to be limited to a class, 182.
Moral sense, the, defined, 177.
Mosaic, Florentine, waste of labour, 34.
Motive, the only real, and rightness, 81.
Mourning, English love of, 70.
Museums, provincial, art-models for, 169.
National works, as a means of art employment, 24.
Nations in "brotherly concord and fatherly authority," 14.
" energy of, to be directed, 16.
" laws of, to be protective as well as punitive, 14.
Natural forms, as subjects of design, 172.
" History, the study of, to be extended, 155.
" Science, and drawing, 156.
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