Word: john
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...JOHN RUSKIN has been spending the greater portion of his life in endeavoring to free the world from an old idea, that works of art should be admired for their own apparent power, for the force with which they strike the observer. In place of this notion, he has labored to introduce a taste for art measured by definite rules and lines...
...contributor to the North American Review and the author of several pamphlets. For some time he held the position of private secretary to John Quincy Adams, and was in Russia with him in that capacity...