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" ... they intended to be permanent, we have no right to obliterate. What we have ourselves built, we are at liberty to throw down; but what other men gave their strength and wealth and life to accomplish, their right over does not pass away with their... "
History of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, Instituted September 22, 1831 - Page 213
by Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1882
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin - 1849 - 306 pages
...achievement or the expression of religious feeling, or whatsoever else it might be which in those buildings they intended to be permanent, we have no right to...vested in us only. It belongs to all their successors. It may hereafter be a subject of sorrow, or a cause of injury, to millions, that we have consulted...
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin - 1859 - 240 pages
...achievement or the expression of religious feeling, or whatsoever else it might be which in those buildings they intended to be permanent, we have no right to obliterate. What we have ourselves built, we arc at liberty to throw down; but what other men gave their strength and wealth and life to accomplish,...
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The seven lamps of architecture

John Ruskin - 1866 - 468 pages
...achievement or the expression of religious feeling, or whatsoever else it might be which in those buildings they intended to be permanent, we have no right to...vested in us only. It belongs to all their successors. It may hereafter be a subject of sorrow, or a cause of injury, to millions, that we have consulted...
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Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...achievement or the expression of religious feeling, or whatsoever else it might be which in those buildings they intended to be permanent, we have no right to...vested in us only. It belongs to all their successors. It may hereafter be a subject of sorrow, or a cause of injury, to millions, that we have consulted...
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin - 1874 - 246 pages
...achievement or the expression of religious feeling, or whatsoever else it might be which in those buildings they intended to be permanent, we have no right to obliterate. What \ve have ourselves built, we are at liberty to throw down ; but what other men gave their strength...
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The book of the Axe

George Philip R. Pulman - 1875 - 962 pages
...achievement or the expression of religious feeling, or whatsoever else it might be which, in those buildings they intended to be permanent, we have no right to...vested in us only. It belongs to all their successors. It may hereafter be a subject of sorrow, or a cause of injury, to millions, that we have consulted...
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Our Ancient Monuments and the Land Around Them

Charles Philip Kains- Jackson - 1880 - 132 pages
...see them perish without deep regret In the eloquent words of Ruskin, with which I will conclude, " The dead still have their right in them (these monuments)...vested in us only. It belongs to all their successors." JOHN LUBBOCK. HIGH ELMS, DOWN, KENT. THE ORIGIN OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS. /"QUOTATIONS tending to throw...
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Our Ancient Monuments and the Land Around Them

Charles Philip Kains- Jackson - 1880 - 136 pages
...see them perish without deep regret. In the eloquent words of Ruskin, with which I will conclude, " The dead still have their right in them (these monuments)...vested in us only. It belongs to all their successors." JOHN LUBBOCK. HIGH ELMS, DOWN, KENT. THE ORIGIN OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS. QUOTATIONS tending to throw light...
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Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 14

Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1882 - 746 pages
...partly to all the generations of mankind who are to follow us. The dead have still their right in them. That which they laboured for, the praise of achievement,...vested in us only. It belongs to all their successors." As is well known, various attempts have from time to time been made to preserve some of the materials...
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The Seven Lamps of Architecture

John Ruskin - 1854 - 234 pages
...achievement or the expression of religious feeling, or whatsoever else it might be which in those buildings they intended to be permanent, we have no right to...pass away with their death ; still less is the right ft> the use of what they have left vested in us only. It belongs to all their successors. It may hereafter...
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