 Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible to rule external circumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. Life lies before us, as a huge quarry lies before the architect ; he deserves not the name of architect, except...  Prose Writers of German - Σελίδα 267των Frederic Henry Hedge - 1848 - 567 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1824 - 366 σελίδες
...your own most peculiar style; and then what parts of it I cannot quite appropriate, I will endeavour to translate." " I may continue," he replied, " in...architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, suitableness and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated... | |
 | 1838 - 348 σελίδες
...harvest to her manufacturers and merchants. To be continued. Goethe, in his Wilheim Meister, says — "Man's highest merit always is as much as possible...external circumstances, and as little as possible to be ruled by them. Life lies before us, as a huge quarry lies before the architect, except when out... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1840 - 350 σελίδες
...your own most peculiar style ; and then what parts of it I cannot quite appropriate, I will endeavour to translate." " I may continue," he replied, " in...architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, and fitness, and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1851 - 508 σελίδες
...alteration of my tone. Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible to rule external cirI cumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled...by them. Life lies before us, as a huge quarry lies beI fore the architect ; he deserves not the name of architect, \except when, out of this fortuitous... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 σελίδες
...to put a felt cowl upon thy head; be a darwesh in thy actions, and wear a Tartarian coronet. Sadi. Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible...before the architect; he deserves not the name of an architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy and... | |
 | 1856 - 902 σελίδες
...merit always is, as much as possible, to rule extenial circumstances, and as little as possible to be ruled by them. Life lies before us, as a huge quarry...architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, suitableness, and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1858 - 348 σελίδες
...your own most peculiar style ; and then what parts of it I cannot quite appropriate, I will endeavour to translate." " I may continue," he replied, " in...architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, and fitness, and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1864 - 352 σελίδες
...your own most peculiar style ; and then what parts of it I cannot quite appropriate, I will endeavour to translate." " I may continue," he replied, " in...architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, and fitness, and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1865 - 426 σελίδες
...nature; but rather to seek out every property and beauty by which our pretension to a similarity witt the Divinity may be made good." I smiled and answered...architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, and fitness, and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated... | |
 | 1871 - 384 σελίδες
...your own most peculiar style; and then what parts of it I cannot quite appropriate, I will endeavour to translate." " I may continue," he replied, " in...architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy, and fitness, and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated... | |
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