Excerpt: ...with John Ruskin; and now that this social and economical work had been taken up, he began to have a real esteem for him, though always with a patronizing tone, which the younger man's open and confessed discipleship accepted and encouraged. This letter especially shows both men in an unaccustomed light: Ruskin, hating tobacco, sends his "master" cigars; Carlyle, hating cant, replies rather in the tone of the temperance advocate, taking a little wine for his stomach's sake: "CHELSEA, 22 Feby, 1865 "DEAR RUSKIN, ...
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Excerpt: ...with John Ruskin; and now that this social and economical work had been taken up, he began to have a real esteem for him, though always with a patronizing tone, which the younger man's open and confessed discipleship accepted and encouraged. This letter especially shows both men in an unaccustomed light: Ruskin, hating tobacco, sends his "master" cigars; Carlyle, hating cant, replies rather in the tone of the temperance advocate, taking a little wine for his stomach's sake: "CHELSEA, 22 Feby, 1865 "DEAR RUSKIN, "You have sent me a munificent Box of Cigars; for wh'h what can I say in ans'r? It makes me both sad and glad. Ay de mi. "We are such stuff, Gone with a puff--Then think, and smoke Tobacco!' "The Wife also has had her Flowers; and a letter wh'h has charmed the female mind. You forgot only the first chapter of 'Aglaia';--don't forget; and be a good boy for the future. "The Geology Book wasn't Jukes; I found it again in the Magazine, --reviewed there: 'Phillips, ' 9 is there such a name? It has ag'n escaped me. I have a notion to come out actually some day soon; and take a serious Lecture from you on what you really know, and can give me some intelligible outline of, ab't the Rocks, --bones of P. 167 our poor old Mother; wh'h have always been venerable and strange to me. Next to nothing of rational could I ever learn of the subject. "Yours ever, "T. CARLYLE." NOTE: 9 "Jukes,"--Mr. J.B. Jukes, F.R.S., with whom Ruskin had been discussing in The Reader. "Phillips," the Oxford Professor of Geology, and a friend of Ruskin's. CHAPTER IV "SESAME AND LILIES" (1864) Wider aims and weaker health had not put an end to Ruskin's connection with the Working Men's College, though he did not now teach a drawing-class regularly. He had, as he said, "the satisfaction of knowing that they had very good masters in Messrs. Lowes Dickinson, Jeffery and Cave Thomas," and his work was elsewhere. He was to have lectured there on December 19th, 1863; but he did not reach...
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 300grams, ISBN:
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 500grams, ISBN:
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 300grams, ISBN:
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Fair. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear but still very useable. Colouring on page edges due to age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 300grams, ISBN:
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Poor/Fair. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall Heavy all-round wear to boards and soiled spine, but gilt lettering still mainly visable. Red dye from cloth has leaked onto the bottom of the first few pages at either end of book. Slightly bowed. Fine as a reading copy, binding still tight and pages still bright besides very light foxing.
