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
Power, motive of desire for, 74. iii. 33.
Praise, all great art, act, and thought is, pref. v.
Prayer, George Chapman's last, 102. iv. 20.
Pride, and avarice, 111. iv. 35.
" faults and virtues of, 104-105. iv. 24.
" infidelity of, and the cockatrice, 110. iv. 33; 121. iv. 41.
Priestly ambition, 74. iii. 33.
Probus, the Emperor, 32 n. ii. 15; 67. iii, 21.
Prophets, figures of the, Amiens Cathedral, general view of, 114. iv. 39.
" " " " in detail, 121-122. iv. 42-3.
Protestantism, and the study of the Bible, 80. iii. 45.
" and popular histories, 12.
" and priestly ambition, 74. iii. 33.
" and Roman Catholicism, 137. iv. 57.
" views of S. Jerome, 73. iii. 31.
Provence, early, 8, 9.
Providence, God's, and history, 13.
Psalms, the scope of the, 85, iii. 50.
Public opinion, callousness of modern, 48. ii. 42.
Purgatory, doctrine of, 136 n. iv. 55 n.
Puritan malice, 34. ii. 19.
Quaker, preaching at Matlock, 83 n. iii. 48.
Queen's Guards, in Ireland, 1880, pref. iii.
Races of Europe, divided by climate, 61. iii. 9. See "Climate."
Rachel, the Syrian, 63. iii. 14.
Railroads, modern, of Germany, 59. iii. 4.
" travelling by, I, 3.
Raphael's Madonnas, 131. iv. 49.
Rebellion, figure of, Amiens Cathedral, 119. iv. 41.
Religion, definition of true, 138-139. iv. 60. (And see "Bible,"
"Christianity," "Inspiration," "Protestantism.")
" to desire the right, 82. iii. 48.
" common idea that our own enemies are God's also, 14.
" and morality, 138. iv. 58.
" natural, 102. iv. 20.
" of Arabia, 65. iii. 19.
" of Egypt, 63. iii. 13.
" Eastern and Western, Col. Butler on, 21 n.
Restoration, modern, 107 n. iv. 27 n.
Rheims, Clovis crowned at, 9.
" " enriches church of, 52. ii. 49.
Rheims Cathedral, 88. iv. 1.
" " its traceries, 97. iv. 11.
Rhine, the, refortified by Julian, 38 n., 41. ii. 31.
" " tribes from Vistula to, 30. ii. 10.
Right and left, in description of cathedrals, 107. iv. 28.
Rivers, strength and straightness, 61 n. iii. 10.
Robert, of Luzarches, builder of Amiens Cathedral, 97. iv. 12.
Roman Catholics, half Wellington's army Irish, pref. iv.
" " and Protestantism, 137. iv. 57.
" " servants, 72. iii. 29.
Roman Emperors, five, from Dacia, 32 n. ii. 15.
" " as supreme Pontiffs, 75. iii. 35.
Roman Empire, divisions of (Illyria, Italy, Gaul), 67. iii. 21-2.
" " Eastern and Western division, 67. iii. 21.
" " end of the, 66-67. iii. 20-21.
" " fall of, 31. ii. 12.
" " " and Julian and the augurs, 70. iii. 26.
" " its main foes, 30. ii. 9.
" " its true importance, 66. iii. 20.
" " a power, not a nation, 65. iii. 19 n.
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