 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 σελίδες
...great man, studying nature in her details, and becoming what Bacon calls her interpreting priest, he elevates himself to those heights whence he can take a comprehensive view of her in connexion with man and the movements of POETIC TEMPERAMENT OF HUMBOLDT. 433 society, with language,... | |
 | 1871 - 880 σελίδες
...authority that the works of Humboldt show to every one who can " read between the lines " an endeavour to present nature in her totality unconnected with...man almost like the nidifying instinct to the bird. Humboldt's tendency in this respect seems in its sphere not wholly dissimilar to the view which his... | |
 | 1859 - 398 σελίδες
...great man, studying Nature in her details, and becoming what Bacon calls her interpreting priest, he elevates himself to those heights whence he can take...language, economy, and exchange, institutions and arehitecture, which is to man almost like the nidifying instinct to the bird. Humboldt's tendency in... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 516 σελίδες
...priest, he elevates himself to those heights whence he can take a comprehensive view of her in connexion with man and the movements of society, with language,...man almost like the nidifying instinct to the bird. Humboldt's tendency in this respect seems to me in its sphere not wholly dissimilar to the view which... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1859 - 528 σελίδες
...great man, studying nature in her details, and becoming what Bacon callsher interpreting priest, he elevates himself to those heights whence he can take a comprehensive view of her in connexion with man and the movements of society, with language, economy, and exchange, institutions... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1880 - 550 σελίδες
...the details of these topics. Although it has been stated by high authority that the works of Humboldt show to every one who can " read between the lines"...man almost like the nidifying instinct to the bird. Humboldt's tendency in this respect seems to me in its sphere not wholly dissimilar to the view which... | |
 | Aaron Sachs - 2007 - 510 σελίδες
...interpreting priest, elevates himself to those heights whence he can take a comprehensive view of her connection with man and the movements of society,...which is to man almost like the nidifying instinct of the bird. . . . He was with all his erudition and the grandeur of his knowledge, eminently a social... | |
 | Aaron Sachs - 2007 - 516 σελίδες
...interpreting priest, elevates himself to those heights whence he can take a comprehensive view of her connection with man and the movements of society,...which is to man almost like the nidifying instinct of the bird. . . . He was with all his erudition and the grandeur of his knowledge, eminently a social... | |
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Humboldt show to every one who can " read between the lines" an endeavor to present nature in her totality unconnected with man, I cannot otherwise than state here that, on the contrary, it has ever appeared to me that this great man, studying nature... 