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... Art and Life: A Ruskin Anthology - Page 561by John Ruskin, William Sloane Kennedy - 1886 - 593 pagesFull view - About this book
| American fiction - 1907 - 554 pages
...impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think,...is poetry, prophecy, and religion — all in one." What, then, finally is the type of college woman that we should seek to send forth from our Southern... | |
| Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - Child development - 1892 - 264 pages
...them to see. Did you ever think how many people there are who " having eyes, see not"? Ruskin says, " Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think,...one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one." A gentleman who is trying to write the biography of a great man complained to... | |
| Education - 1889 - 686 pages
...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... | |
| Education - 1888 - 746 pages
...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... | |
| Bible - 1892 - 672 pages
...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,... | |
| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1893 - 628 pages
...having eyes, see not?" No one has showed better how general blindness exists than Ruskin, who says : " Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think,...one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, religion, all in one." For a child to acquire a quick perception has for resultant the well-defined... | |
| Wales - 1893 - 290 pages
...of modern poets has not helped them. " Thousands can think," Mr. Ruskin epigrammatically tells us, " for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion — all in one." It may be, indeed, that our modern Poetry of Nature is unduly " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of... | |
| Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - Wales - 1893 - 662 pages
...of modern poets has not helped them. " Thousands can think," Mr. Ruskin epigrammatically tells us, " for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion — all in one." It may be, indeed, that our modern Poetry of Nature is unduly " sicklied o'er with the pale cast of... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1893 - 862 pages
...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... | |
| John Ruskin - English literature - 1894 - 476 pages
...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...is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one. Therefore, finding the world of Literature more or less divided into Thinkers and Seers, I believe... | |
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