Our Fathers Have Told Us: Part I. The Bible of AmiensRuskin, John
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Our Fathers Have Told Us: Part I. The Bible of Amiens
Ruskin, John
Cathédrale d'Amiens; France -- History
Laon cathedral, legend of, and oxen, 118 n. iv. 41. n.
Latin and English compared, 104. iv. 24 sq.
Law, the force of, and government, 64. iii. 15.
" old and new forms of, 48. ii. 43.
Lear, King, story of, reduced to its bare facts, 11-12.
Legends, whether true or not, immaterial, 15, 16, 18; 86-87. iii. 54.
" modern contempt for, 129. iv. 46.
" rationalization of, its value, 50. n. ii. 47.
Leopard, English heraldic, 42. ii. 31.
Leucothea, 27. ii. 3.
Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, 47. ii, 42.
Liberty, and activity, 40. ii. 29.
" and "franchise," 38, 38 n. ii. 27, 28 n.
Libya, 63. iii. 13.
" and Vandal invasion, 64. iii. 16.
Lily on statue of David, Amiens Cathedral, 110. iv. 32.
Limousins, 10.
Lion, under feet of Christ, Amiens Cathedral, 111. iv. 34.
Literature and art, distinct mental actions, 82. iii. 47.
" and the Bible, 85. iii. 51.
" cheap (penny edition of Scott), 60. iii. 7.
Louis, derivation of, 51. ii. 48.
---- I., of France, 47. ii. 40.
---- VIII., 100. iv. 16.
(See "St. Louis.")
Love, divine and human (Amiens Cathedral), 118. iv. 41.
" no humanity without it, 138. iv. 59.
Luca della Robbia, 81. iii. 46.
Luini, 81. iii. 46.
Lune, the river, 2.
Lust (Amiens Cathedral), 120. iv. 41.
Lydia, 62. iii. 12.
Madonna, figure of, Amiens Cathedral, 94. iv. 7.
" porch to, " " 107. iv. 28.
" three types of (Dolorosa, Reine, Nourrice), 131. iv. 49.
" worship of, and its modern substitutes, 131. iv. 48.
Malachi, figure of, Amiens Cathedral, 127. iv. 43.
Man, races of, divided by climate, 61. iii. 8.
Man's nature, 58. iii. 1.
Manchester, 59. iii. 3.
Map-drawing, 60. iii 7.
" of English dominions (Sir E. Creasy), 59-60. iii. 5-6.
" of France, 8.
" on Mercator's projection, 59-60. iii. 6.
Marquise, village near Calais, 10.
Martin's, John, "Belshazzar's feast," 122. iv. 42.
Martinmas, 18.
Martyrdom, the lessons of, 135. iv. 53.
Martyrs, female, many not in calendar, 29. ii. 7.
Meleager, 31. ii. 11.
Memory, "Memoria technica," 26. ii. 1.
Mercator, 60. iii. 6.
Merovee, seizes Amiens, on death of Clodion, 447 A.D., 7, 21.
Micah, figure of, Amiens Cathedral, 124. iv. 43.
Millennium, the, 86. iii. 54.
Milman's History of Christianity, 68-70 n., 73. iii. 22, 26, 32.
" " " on Rome in time of St. Jerome, 75-76.
iii. 35.
Milton's "Paradise Lost," and the Bible, 80. iii. 44.
" " " quoted, 118. iv. 41.
Mind, disease of, noble and ignoble passion, 72. iii. 29.
Mines, coal, Plimsoll on, 48. ii. 42.
Missals, atheism represented as barefoot in, of 1100-1300, 119. ii. 41.
Modernism, avarice and pride of, 111. iv. 35. See "Christianity,"
"Commerce," "England," "History," "Humility," "Infidelity,"
"Philosophy," "Public Opinion," "Science."
Moesia, and the alphabet, 68. iii. 22.
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