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" 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. "
Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin - Page 449
by John Ruskin - 1868 - 479 pages
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The Lancet, Volume 2

Medicine - 1872 - 890 pages
...believe Raskin is not far 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...
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Proceedings, Volume 30

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,...
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The Moral Relations of Physical Science

Samuel Colcord Bartlett - Physical sciences - 1850 - 310 pages
...materialism in its nature. " The more I think of it," oracularly declares John Ruskin, " I find it more impressed upon me that the greatest thing a human...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...
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The Children's Bower; Or, What You Like, Volume 2

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...
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The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion: Selected ...

John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...result of the hardest efforts of others. Then, as touching the kind of work done by these two men, the more I think of it I find this conclusion more...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...
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The True and the Beautiful: In Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion

John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...result of the hardest efforts of others. Then, as touching the kind of 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 , I this world is to see something, and tell...
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The Ohio Educational Monthly: A Journal of School and Home Education, Volume 11

Education - 1862 - 420 pages
...predicate-modifiers; derivatively, adjective and adverb modifiers. LEARNING TO SEE. BY J. MORROW.* The more I think of it, I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, that the greatest work a human soul ever does in this world, is to see something, and to tell what it saw in a plain...
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Helps to Education in the Homes of Our Country

Warren Burton - Child rearing - 1863 - 392 pages
...children. So far as relates to intellectual training, I heartily concur in the sentiment of Ruskin, " The more I think of it, I find this conclusion more...it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk, to one who thinks ; but thousands can think, to one who can see." The importance and methods of "Object-teaching"...
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Helps to Education in the Homes of Our Country

Warren Burton - Education - 1863 - 404 pages
...children. So far as relates to intellectual training, I heartily concur in the sentiment of Ruskin, " The more I think of it, I find this conclusion more...greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to tee something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk, to one who thinks;...
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Annual Report of the Board of Education, Volume 26

Massachusetts. Board of Education - Education - 1863 - 478 pages
...nature as they are seen by no other. Ruskin says — " The more I think of it, I find this conelusion more impressed upon me, that the greatest thing a...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...
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