 | 1856 - 834 pages
...With the same anti-modem furor and pointed cleverness, we aretold that " railway travelling is not travelling at all ;" it is merely " being sent to...and very little different from becoming " a parcel :" and that the electric telegraph might be " well and convenient," if we had but something to say,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 452 pages
...most amusing of all travelling ; and all travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling...it has been truly said by Octave Feuillet, " II y aurait ties yens (usez bites pour trouver ya amusant,"1 If we walk more than ten or twelve miles, it... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 pages
...most amusing of all travelling ; and all travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling...suppose it has been truly said by Octave Feuillet, " 77 y aurait dcs gens astez betes pour tronvcr ja amasant."1 If we walk more than ten or twelve miles,... | |
 | Charles Packe - 1857 - 176 pages
...holidays." " All travelling," says Mr, Ruskin, " becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling...however I suppose it has been truly said by Octave Fuillet, ' II y aurait des gens assez betes pour trouver Qa amusant'. ' Walking is the only way to... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 pages
...most amusing of all travelling; and all travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling...it has been truly said by Octave Feuillet, " II y aurait des gens assez betes pourtrouver;aamusant." WEALTH. Wealth is simply one of the greatest powers... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 pages
...most amusing of all travelling; and all travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling...suppose it has been truly said by Octave Feuillet, "II y aurait des gens assez betes pour trouver Qa amusant." WEALTH. Wealth is simply one of the greatest... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...most amusing of all travelling; and all travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapjdity. Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling...has been truly said by Octave Feuillet, " II y await des gens assez betes pour trouver ca. artmsant." If we walk more than ten or twelve miles, it breaks... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 372 pages
...most amusing of all travelling ; and all travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling...suppose it has been truly said by Octave Feuillet, "// y aurait des gens assez bUtes pour trouver qa, amusant." WEALTH. Wealth is simply one of the greatest... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 pages
...doorkeeper to refuse to come back again. Leigh Hunt. RAILWAY TRAVELLING. Railway travelling is not travelling at all ; it is merely being sent to a place,...and very little different from becoming a parcel. Ruskin. GENIUS AND LEARNING. If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare.... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1869 - 364 pages
...most amusing of all travelling ; and all travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity. Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling...a parcel ; the next step to it would of course be tele* graphic transport, of which, however, I suppose it has been truly said by Octave Feuillet, "II... | |
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I do not consider as travelling at all ; it is merely " being sent " to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel... 
