 Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas ; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something...  Typographical Journal - Trang 3131900Xem Toàn bộ - Giới thiệu về cuốn sách này
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 470 trang
...had lost her dread of water. Instead, therefore, of saying that Man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 456 trang
...lost her dread of water. 3* Instead, therefore, of saying that Man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured... | |
 | 1856 - 606 trang
...on this subject, has well said, that instead " of saying that man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 482 trang
...lost her dread of water. 3* Instead, therefore, of saying that Man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 trang
...to grasp it ; but he must grasp firmly, not grope blindly. " We will not say," writes Goethe, " that man is the creature of circumstances ; it would be nearer the mark to say, Man is the architect of circumstances. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 620 trang
...according to his own inborn genius. Instead, therefore, of saying that man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 376 trang
...to grasp it ; but he must grasp firmly, not grope blindly. " We will not say," writes Goethe, " that man is the creature of circumstances : it would be nearer the mark to say, man is the architect of circumstances. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 trang
...grace forms a man to a Christian way of walking in any estate. — Leighton. Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstances, it would be...circumstances. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstances. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds... | |
 | William Mathews - 1874 - 202 trang
...As Lewes says in his "Life of Goethe," instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstances. " Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another... | |
 | William D. Lawson - 1873 - 442 trang
..." Instead," says Lewes in his Life of Goethe, " of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance." In forming our estimate... | |
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