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Cameron condemns boardroom excesses but rejects Robin Hood tax call John Ruskin can help us rail against the dehumanising power of capitalism
The Guardian World News Patrick Wintour 2011
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At least in comparison with modern times, against which critics such as John Ruskin railed in torrents of florid language.
A Victorian fantasy, in stone Philip Kennicott 2011
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As one might expect, 19th-century writers such as John Ruskin and William Morris receive a sympathetic hearing in "The Craftsman."
The Art of Doing Something Well Brian C. Anderson 2008
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Critics of an earlier age, such as John Ruskin, had no problem making themselves understood, and they are still read today.
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"John Ruskin," she said, "is good and kind, and charming beyond the common lot of mortals, and there are pages of his prose, to my thinking, more eloquent than any thing out of Jeremy Taylor."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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But no one would discern in these five pictures the genius that painted the Home at Bethlehem and the portrait of John Ruskin which is at Oxford.
Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877
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'' 'John Ruskin' '' (February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900) was an artist, author and poet during the Victorian era.
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Philosophers such as John Ruskin and William Morris touted the concept that craft was redeeming, that performing tasks themselves was noble, and that hand work - the same disappearing crafts that were poorly paid - was a noble occupation.
O'Reilly News Simon St. Laurent 2010
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Philosophers such as John Ruskin and William Morris touted the concept that craft was redeeming, that performing tasks themselves was noble, and that hand work - the same disappearing crafts that were poorly paid - was a noble occupation.
O'Reilly News Simon St. Laurent 2010
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'' 'John Ruskin' '' (February 8, 1819 - January 20, 1900) was an artist, author and poet during the Victorian era.
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