 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...  Modern Painters - Página 268por John Ruskin - 1872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1872 - 890 páginas
...thing a human soul ever does in this world is to ьее something Ко. 2Кб. and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who cau think, but thousands can think for one who can see." If, then, we are struggling on, our facts... | |
 | Samuel Colcord Bartlett - 1850 - 310 páginas
...thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, —...divided into Thinkers and Seers, I believe we shall also find the Seers are wholly the greater race of the two." But what is the value, let us ask, of... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1922 - 836 páginas
...who possesses it, Ruskin says, "sees clearly and states what he sees plainly," and he adds, "hundreds can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see." This talent, though it may be improved by practice, is one which I think cannot be acquired. It is... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1856 - 450 páginas
...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...the world of Literature more or less divided into Tliinkera and Seers, I believe we shall find also that the Seers are wholly the greater race of the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 páginas
...the greatest thing a human soul ever does in , I this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one...can see. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecy, and religion,—all in one. Therefore, finding the world of Literature more or less divided into Thinkers... | |
 | 1864 - 588 páginas
...assertion was accompanied by no other commentary than this : ' Thousands of people can think for one that can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion ; all in one.' The first impression is, that these are rather strong and sweeping statements; but reflection will... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 páginas
...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...can think, but thousands can think for one who can sec. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecj^jand religion,— all in one. Therefore, finding the world... | |
 | 1872 - 420 páginas
...the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to fee something, and tell what it sato in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. — Ruskin. The school is no... | |
 | 1895 - 736 páginas
..."The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to sec something ai>d tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think ; hut thousands can think for one who can see." True, I have had "close communion" with some of the... | |
 | Birmingham historical society - 1881 - 400 páginas
...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...clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one." Notice that in Stanley the perception is always concrete and intellectual only. In a lecture he delivered... | |
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