 I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all people in the world the precisely least likely to give you a farthing ! My first word to all men and boys who care to hear me is ' Don't get into debt. Starve and go to heaven — but don't borrow. Try...  The Life and Work of John Ruskin - 227 psl.autoriai: William Gershom Collingwood - 1893 - 4 psl.Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1893 - 564 psl.
...consistent and reasonable expression of Mr. Ruskin's views.' ' Brantwood, May \f)th, 1886. ' SIR, — I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all...don't borrow. Try first begging. I don't mind, if its really needful, stealing ! But don't buy things you can't pay for ! And of all manner of debtors,... | |
 | 1900 - 848 psl.
...an appeal for help to pay off the debt on a chapel, Ruskin once wrote: I ;im scornfully amused ;it your appeal to me. of all people in the world the...debt. Starve and go to heaven, but don't borrow." * * * And of all manner of debtors, pious people building churches they can't pay for are the most... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1889 - 468 psl.
...indignant when asked to subscribe towards an iron church, and this is how he replied to the request : ' I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all...the precisely least likely to give you a farthing. . . . Can't you preach and pray behind hedges — or in a sandpit — or a coal-hole — first ? And... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1889 - 462 psl.
...indignant when asked to subscribe towards an iron church, and this is how he replied to the request : ' I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all...the precisely least likely to give you a farthing. . . . Can't you preach and pray behind hedges — or in a sandpit — or a coal-hole—first ? And... | |
 | Sir George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1901 - 908 psl.
...in May, 1886, to a person who had asked him for some money to pay a debt on a chapel : — Sir, — I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all...; starve and go to Heaven— but don't borrow. Try fii>t Pegging ; I don't mind, if it's really needful, stealing ! But don't buy things you can't pay... | |
 | George Newnes - 1895 - 840 psl.
...unusual violence of his language : — Sir, — I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of ail people in the world the precisely least likely to...don't borrow. Try first begging ; I don't mind, if its really needful, stealing ! But don't buy things you can't pay for ! And, of all manner of debtors,... | |
 | James John Hissey - 1898 - 510 psl.
...of the debt on a certain iron church : — BRANTWOOD, CONISTON, LANCASHIRE, l<)th May 1886. SIR — I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all...into debt. Starve and go to heaven, but don't borrow. . . . Don't buy things you can't pay for ! And of all manner of debtors, pious people building churches... | |
 | Robert de La Sizeranne - 1899 - 344 psl.
...Ruskin for money. He wrote to him : — "BRANTWOOD, CONISTON, LANCASHIRE, May \<)th, 1886. "SIR, — I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all...don't borrow. Try first begging, — I don't mind, if it is really needful, stealing. But don't buy things you can't pay for.' " And of all manner of debtors,... | |
 | William Gershom Collingwood - 1900 - 488 psl.
...expression of Mr. Ruskin's views :— ' BRANTWOOD, CONISTON, ' LANCASHIRE, 'May 19<A, 1886. 'Sin, ' I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all...Starve and go to heaven— but don't borrow. Try first begging,—I don't mind, if it's really needful, stealing ! But don't buy things you can't pay for!"... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1901 - 280 psl.
...application to help a church at Richmond : — " BBANTWOOD, CONISTON, LANCASHIRE, May 19, 1896. " SIB, — I am scornfully amused at your appeal to me, of all...the precisely least likely to give you a farthing 1 My first word to all men and boys, who care to hear me, is, Don't get into debt. Starve and go to... | |
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