 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 Seiten
...other," said Lord Langdale, " the world would kick the beam." " As soon as we are born," said Goethe, " the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end." " Speak to the earth and it shall teach thee," said Job. And this our life, exempt from public haunt,... | |
 | Nathan Christ Schaeffer - 1900 - 360 Seiten
...and this goes on to the end. „ , „ , Originaiity. After all, what can we call our own except our energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account...great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be little left of my own." Observation lies at the basis of the thinking which leads to invention in the... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1900 - 240 Seiten
...might have looked for in vain. " We are always talking about originality," he says, " but what do we mean ? As soon as we are born the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. After all, what can we call our own, except our energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1900 - 252 Seiten
...might have looked for in vain. " We are always talking about originality," he says, " but what do we mean ? As soon as we are born the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. After all, what can we call our own, except our energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account... | |
 | Nathan Christ Schaeffer - 1900 - 360 Seiten
...Goethe's views of originality are these : "We are always talking about originality, but what do we mean ? As soon as we are born the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. A a- n v. , II , Originality. After all, what can we call our own except our energy, strength, and... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1900 - 238 Seiten
...might have looked for in vain. " We are always talking about originality," he says, " but what do we mean ? As soon as we are born the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. After all, what can we call our own, except our energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account... | |
 | John Lancaster Spalding - 1900 - 240 Seiten
...begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. After all, what can we call our own, except our energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and co-temporaries, there would be little left of my own." It is this modest and teachable spirit, united... | |
 | George Wright Buckley - 1901 - 232 Seiten
...individual, but is the treasure of all men. — Emerson. People are always talking 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. ... If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would... | |
 | Henry R. D. Anders, Heinrich R. D. Anders - 1904 - 352 Seiten
...talking about originality; but what does that mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to act on us, and this goes on to the end. And, after all, what...predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but ji small balance in my favour. Again, on the 17th February 1832 Goethe uttered the following weighty... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 Seiten
...better than we can put it ourselves. — George Eliot. People are always talking tibont originality ; ns. — John Ifetcton. We ought to judge of preachers,...eloquence, the grand difficulty is, to give the subject ORIGINALITY. ORNAMENT. be bat a email balance in raj favor.— Ooethe. A well cultivated mind is, во... | |
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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. 
