 I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one...  The Abdominal Brain - Σελίδα 2των Leila G. Bedell - 1885 - 45 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 488 σελίδες
...done by these two men, the more I think of it I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1891 - 304 σελίδες
...easy than to overlook, and to be able to see what we do see, is a great gift. Ruskin maintains that " The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way." I do not suppose that his eyes are better than ours, but how much more he sees... | |
 | 1890 - 412 σελίδες
...how little of beauty can come in; how many avenues of learning it closes up. Mr. Ruskin says that " the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and to tell what it sees in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think; but thousands... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson - 1891 - 322 σελίδες
...nature of his gift : — " The more I think of it, I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see some thing, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think,... | |
 | John M. Robertson - 1891 - 275 σελίδες
...I think of it, I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human sonl ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for... | |
 | 1889 - 686 σελίδες
...see, to see critically and intelligently. Emerson has well said: ''I am impressed with the fact that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and to tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands... | |
 | 1888 - 746 σελίδες
...see, to see critically and intelligently. Emerson has well said: "I am impressed with the fact that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and to tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands... | |
 | 1892 - 672 σελίδες
...Hooker. A Seer. — The more I think of it, the more I find tliis conclusion impressed npon me — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to tet something, and tell what it taw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think,... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1893 - 862 σελίδες
...it," says Raskin, " the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me, that one of the greatest things a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and to tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk to one who thinks, but thousands can... | |
 | Henry Drummond - 1894 - 368 σελίδες
...PREPACK. u THE more I think of it," says Raskin, « I find this conclusion more impressed upon me — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way." In these pages an attempt is made to " tell in a plain way " a few of the things... | |
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