 | American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...in one pregnant sentence : " The eye sees what it brings the power to see." How true is this I Tho sailor on the look-out can see a ship where the landsman sees nothing; the Esquimaux can distinguish a white fox amidst the white snow ; the American backwoodsman will fire a rifle ball so... | |
 | National Sunday school union - 1863 - 832 pages
...up in the one pregnant sentence, "The eye sees what it brings the power to see." How true this is ! The sailor on the look-out can see a ship where the...of the mouth of a squirrel without hurting it; the Bed Indian boys hold their hands up as marks to each other, certain that the unerring arrow will be... | |
 | George Wilson - Knowledge, Theory of - 1856 - 146 pages
...up in the one pregnant sentence, " The eye sees what it brings the power to see." How true this is ! The sailor on the look-out can see a ship where the landsman sees nothing ; the Esquimaux can distinguish a white fox amidst the white snow ; the American backwoodsman will fire a rifle-ball so... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1857 - 624 pages
...this up in one pregnant sentence : " The eye sees what it brings the power to see." How true is this! The sailor on the look-out can see a ship where the landsman sees nothing; the Esquimaux can distinguish a white fox amidst the white snow ; the American backwoodsman will fire a rifle ball so... | |
 | 1858 - 866 pages
...this up in one pregnant sentence, "The eye sees what it brings the power to see." How true is this ! The sailor on the look-out can see a ship where the landsman sees nothing; the Esquimaux can distinguish a white fox amid the white snow ; tho American backwoodsman will fire a rifle-ball so as... | |
 | Education - 1858 - 402 pages
...this up in one pregnant sentence : " The eye sees what it brings the power to see." How true is this ! The sailor on the look-out can see a ship where the landsman sees nothing ; the Esquimaux can distinguish a white fox amidst the white snow ; the American back-woodman will fire a rifle ball so... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 444 pages
...this up in one pregnant sentence : ' The eye sees what it brings the power to see.' How true is this ! The sailor on the look-out can see a ship where the landsman sees nothing : the Esquimaux can distinguish a white fox amidst the white snow ; the American back-woodsman will fire a rifle ball so... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1859 - 432 pages
...sailor on the look-out can see a ship where the landsman sees nothing : the Esquimaux can distinguish a white fox amidst the white snow ; the American back-woodsman will fire a rifle ball so as to strike a nut out of the mouth of a squirrel without hurting it ; the red Indian... | |
 | Social sciences - 1861 - 774 pages
...in the imagination. Naturally quick of discernment, it can also be educated in a very high degree. ' The sailor on the look-out can see a ship where the landsman sees nothing ; the Esquimaux can distinguish a white fox amidst the white snow ; the American backwoodsman will fire a rifle-ball so... | |
 | Samuel Roberts Wells - Facial expression - 1871 - 788 pages
...this up 5n one pregnant sentence : ' The eye sees what it brings the power to see.' How true is this ! The sailor on the look-out can see a ship where the landsman sees nothing ; the Esquimaux can distinguish a white fox amid the white snow ; the American backwoodsman will fire a rifle-ball so as... | |
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is as true of physical as of moral vision. By neglect and carelessness we have made ourselves unable to discern hundreds of things which are before us to be seen. Thomas Carlyle has summed this up in the one pregnant sentence, "The eye sees what it brings... 
