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
Poverty, classical writers on, 2.
" mediaeval view of, 4.
" modern contempt for, just and right, 1 _seq._
Posterity, thought for, 72.
Praise, only the young can enjoy, for the old are above it,
if they deserve it, 26.
Pride, as a motive of expenditure, 79.
Prize-giving, a bad thing in education, 135.
" its true value and meaning, 166.
Productive and unproductive transactions, 132 _n._
Progress, modern, since Edward I., 1857 _pref._
Property, division of, into things producing (_a_) life, (_b_) the objects of
life, 144 _seq._
" the right of, to be acknowledged, 142.
Providence, notion of a special, 133.
Public, the, favour of, 137.
" great men and, 137.
" impatient of what it cannot understand, 140-1.
Punishment, the rationale of human, 123.
Purse-pride, modern and ancient, 2.
Railway speed, 86.
Raphael's Disputation, 147.
Religion, national, its beauty, _pref._
Rembrandt's "spotted shell" as a model in etching, 164.
Renaissance architecture at Verona, 76.
Restraint, the law of life, 16.
Reverence for art, a test of art power, 167.
Reynolds, Sir J., learns much from Italian art, 82.
" portraits of, models of art, 169.
Rich, the duty of the strong and, 118.
Riding, as part of education, 128.
Rowing, as part of education, 128.
St. Albans, Duke of, reads paper for author at Mansfield, 166 _n._
St. Louis' chapel at Carcassonne, painting, 86.
Salvation, not to be limited to a class, 182.
School Board, the, 177.
Schools of art, bare schoolrooms do not fix the attention, 105.
" " decoration of, reasons for, 104.
" " proposals for, 132.
Science, controversy in, too much nowadays, 175.
" education in, 128.
" the bridal city of, 175.
Selection, Natural, and Social Policy, paper by author, 175.
Shakespeare's Cliff, 89.
Siena, frescoes of Antonio Lorenzetti, 57.
Smith, Adam, 1857 _pref._
Soldiers of the ploughshare as well as of the sword, 15.
Speculation, commercial, 151.
Spider, web of a, 170.
Street, Mr., on the Ducal Palace, 141 _n._
Students in art, not to aim at being great masters, 168.
Surfaces, drawing of round, &c., 161.
Sympathy, the cleverness of, 170.
Systems, not easily grasped, 128.
Taste, defined, 154.
" education of, 160.
Tennyson, _In Mem._ LV. "Of fifty seeds, she often brings but one to bear,"
133 (_cp._ Time and Tide, 67).
Thought, not to take the place of fact, 141.
Time, man is the true destroyer, not, 74.
_Times_, The, Nov. 23, 1857, referred to, 138 _n._
Tintoret's St. Sebastian (Venice), perishing, 86.
Titian, eternally right, 157.
" sketch by (Florence), 164.
" woodcuts of, 70.
Tombs, English waste of money on, 78.
Trade, art-faculty, its employment in design in, 30.
" freedom from rivalry, healthful, 110 _seq._
" government direction of, 129.
" guilds, decoration of their buildings, 110 _seq._
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