 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 Pleasures of Life, Part 1 and 2 - Page 146by Sir John Lubbock - 1889 - 252 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Medicine - 1872 - 890 pages
...wrong vben he says : " The more I think of it, the more I find this conclusion impressed upon me — that the greatest 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... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1910 - 756 pages
...they have at all times given me. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, DUNDEE. (I**ual separately January 12, 1910.) " The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this...see something and tell what it saw in a plain way." — HUSK is. Flu. 1. — View of the south end of Loch Uoon from Portmark, looking towards Merrick,... | |
 | Samuel Colcord Bartlett - Physical sciences - 1850 - 310 pages
...nature. " The more I think of it," oracularly declares John Ruskin, " I find it more impressed upon me that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in...see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, — all in one. Therefore finding the world of literature... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 450 pages
...work 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...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 see. To... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 452 pages
...work 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...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 see. To... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Children - 1858 - 328 pages
...that road, and adopting on that point childlike habits. " The greatest thing," he says elsewhere, " 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 and religion." Then, for the selection of facts are manhood and age, think... | |
 | Education - 1863 - 746 pages
...no other. Ruskin says — " 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 to tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk to one who thinks, but thousands can... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 496 pages
...work 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...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 see. To... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...work 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 saic in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...this conclusion more impressed ,: upon me,—that 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 who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To... | |
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