 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1922 - 836 pages
...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 - Aesthetics - 1856 - 450 pages
...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,...is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. Therefore, finding the world of Literature more or less divided into Tliinkera and Seers, I believe... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 452 pages
...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,...is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. Therefore, finding the world of Literature more or less divided into Thinkers and Seers, I believe... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 496 pages
...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,...is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. Therefore, finding the world of Literature more or less divided into Thinkers and Seers, I believe... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saic in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think,...is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. Therefore, finding the world of Literature more or less divided into Thinkers and Seers, I believe... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...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 who can think,...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1864 - 588 pages
...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 - 1868 - 506 pages
...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,...is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. Therefore, finding the world of Literature more or less divided into Thinkers and Seers, I believe... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1872 - 500 pages
...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,...is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. Therefore, finding the world of Literature more or less divided into Thinkers and Seers, I believe... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...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 who can sec. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecj^jand religion,— all in one. Therefore, finding the world... | |
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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... 
