The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of life in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect ; part of it is... Eclectic and Congregational Review - 第478页1853全本阅读 - 图书信息
| University of Calcutta - 1917 - 844 页
...needs not to be patroned by passion , but can sustain itself upon a temperate dispute. (6) Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidlyperfect ; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The fox-glove blossom — a third part bud,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1918 - 456 页
...work none but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way.* The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world. And in all things that live... | |
| 1947 - 756 页
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| Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 页
...honorable. Useless and unworthy. Pleasant and invigorating. Hard and unprofitable. 4. Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....foxglove blossom, — a third part bud, a third part past, a third part in full bloom, — is a type of the life of this world. And in all things that live... | |
| John Ruskin - 1925 - 468 页
...bad can be perfect, in its own bad way. 1 § 25. The second reason is, th.il- impprfprtinn is in snmp sort essential to all that we know of life. It is the sign of hie in a mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or... | |
| John Ruskin - 1927 - 254 页
...work none but what is bad can be perfect, in its own bad way. The second reason is, that imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life....mortal body, that is to say, of a state of progress and 1 Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer: lived at Milan, Florence,... | |
| 1948 - 598 页
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