# Fors Clavigera (Volume 6 of 8)

Author: Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70181

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Fors+Clavigera+Ruskin&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

‘Live and learn.’ I trust it may yet be permitted me to fulfil the adage a few years longer, for I find it takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning. (Query, meaning of ‘deal’?—substantive of verb deal—as at whist?—no Johnson by me, and shall be sure to forget to look when I have.) But I have learned something this morning,—the use of the holes in the bottom of a fireshovel, to wit. I recollect, now, often and often, seeing my mother sift the cinders; but, alas, she never taught me to do it. Did not think, perhaps, that I should ever have occasion, as a Bishop, to occupy myself in that manner; nor understand,—poor sweet mother,—how advisable it might be to have some so...

## Chapters

- [LETTER LXXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/15/index.md)
- [LETTER LXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/3/index.md)
- [LETTER LXIX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/13/index.md)
- [LETTER LXXII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/16/index.md)
- [LETTER LXVI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/8/index.md)
- [LETTER LXVIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/12/index.md)
- [LETTER LXIV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/5/index.md)
- [LETTER LXIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/4/index.md)
- [LETTER LXX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/14/index.md)
- [ix. 20th, forward, and learning the main traditions which the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/2/index.md)
- [LETTER LXVII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/9/index.md)
- [iii. 3,) and a good many of the Amorites and Jebusites too, (Judges](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/7/index.md)
- [LETTER LXI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/1/index.md)
- [d. I had settled my servant Crawley, with his wife and his three](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/11/index.md)
- [LETTER LXV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Letter XI. carefully.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/fors-clavigera-volume-6-of-8-70181/chapters/10/index.md)