The Crown of Wild Olives. Four Lectures On Work, Traffic, War, And the Future of England
The book The Crown of Wild Olives. Four Lectures On Work, Traffic, War, And the Future of England was written by author Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 Here you can read free online of The Crown of Wild Olives. Four Lectures On Work, Traffic, War, And the Future of England book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Crown of Wild Olives. Four Lectures On Work, Traffic, War, And the Future of England a good or bad book?
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To my own knowl- edge, for example, there dwell and toil, in the British village of Dumdrudge, usually some five hundred souls. From these, by certain ' natural enemies ' of the French, there are successively selected, during the French war, say thirty able-bodied men. Dumdrudge, at her own expense, has suckled and nursed them ; she Jias; not without difficulty and sorrow^ fed them up to 140 tHE CROWJSr OP Witt) OtlVB. manhood, and ever trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another bui...ld, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected ; all dressed in red ; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain ; and fed there till wanted. " And now to that same spot in the south of Spain are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dum- drudge, in lilce manner wending ; till at length, after in- finite effort, the two parties comeinto actual juxtaposi- tion J and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand.
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