 | 1852 - 576 Seiten
...truth than the sportsman for the hare. ORIGINALITY. — People are always talking about originality ; but what do they mean ? As soon as we are born, the...will ? If I could give an account of all that I owe lo great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favour. — Goethe.... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1839 - 450 Seiten
...time to time, and renew the impression from the work. " People are always talking about originality ; but • what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and keeps on to the end. What can we call ours, except energy, strength, will 1 If I could give an account... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1851 - 606 Seiten
...never presents itself to the mind. " People," said the old man, " are always talking about originality; but what do they mean ? As soon as we are born the world begins to work on us and keeps on to the end. What can we call ours except energy, strength, and will? If I could... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 796 Seiten
...never presents itself to the mind. "People," said the old man, " are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born the world begins to work on us and keeps on to the end. What can we call ours except energy, strength, and will ? If I could... | |
 | 1851 - 778 Seiten
...never presents itself to the mind. "People," said the old man, " are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born the world begins to work on us and keeps on to the end. What can we call ours except energy, strength, and will ? If I could... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 Seiten
...Goldsmith. ORIGIN ALITY-Meaning of. People are always talking about originality ; but what do they mean 1 As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon...we call our own, except energy, strength, and will Ï If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1883 - 884 Seiten
...them from time to time, and renew our impressions. " People are always talking about originality ; but what do they mean ? As soon as we are born, the world begins J to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. And, after ^ all, what can we call our own except energy,... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1890 - 342 Seiten
...from all his ancestors." "People are al- " ''""'" ways talking," said Goethe, "about originality ; but what do they mean ? As soon as we are born, the...begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end." " So far as respects my own taste," says the author of Modern Chivalry, " I read with great pleasure... | |
 | 1891 - 556 Seiten
...benevolence. Ooldemitk. MEANING» OF. People are always talking about originality ; but what do they mean Т As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon...we call our own, except energy, strength, and will Т If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would... | |
 | 1899 - 502 Seiten
...personal we are not told. Mr. Mabie quotes from Goethe : ' ' People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean ? As soon as we are born, the world beg1ns to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. And, after all, what can we call our own except... | |
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What can we call our own except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favour. 
