Fors Clavigera (Volume 1 of 8) Letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain

You will scarcely care to read anything I have to say to you this evening--having much to think of, wholly pleasant, as I hope; and prospect of delightful days to come, next wee...

It cannot but be pleasing to us to reflect, this day, that if we are often foolish enough to talk English without understanding it, we are often wise enough to talk Latin withou...

As the design which I had in view when I began these letters (and many a year before, in the germ and first outlines of it) is now fairly afoot, and in slow, but determined, beg...

A day seldom passes, now that people begin to notice these Letters a little, without my receiving a remonstrance on the absurdity of writing "so much above the level" of those w...

It seldom chances, my work lying chiefly among stones, clouds, and flowers, that I am brought into any freedom of intercourse with my fellow-creatures; but since the fighting in...

"For lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone, The flowers appear on the earth, The time of the singing of birds is come, Arise, O my fair one, my dove, And come." [9]

Before going farther, you may like to know, and ought to know, what I mean by the title of these Letters; and why it is in Latin. I can only tell you in part, for the Letters wi...

For the last two or three days, the papers have been full of articles on a speech of Lord Derby's, which, it seems, has set the public mind on considering the land question. My...

We begin to-day another group of ten years, not in happy circumstances. Although, for the time, exempted from the direct calamities which have fallen on neighbouring states, bel...

The main purpose of these letters having been stated in the last of them, it is needful that I should tell you why I approach the discussion of it in this so desultory way, writ...

We are to read--with your leave--some history to-day; the leave, however, will perhaps not willingly be given, for you may think that of late you have read enough history, or to...

I begin this letter a month before it is wanted, [22] having several matters in my mind that I would fain put into words at once. It is the first of July, and I sit down to writ...