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 | National Educational Association (U.S.). Meeting - Education - 1896 - 1114 pages
...Goethe's "Wilhelm Meister:" "Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions...beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. For no man can bear to... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 502 pages
...domestic band. He was wont to say : " Men are so inclined to content themselves wkh what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions...beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. For no man can bear to... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1901 - 792 pages
...band. He was wont to say, " Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest ; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions...beautiful and perfect, — that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. For no man can bear to... | |
 | J W Von Goethe - Fiction - 1917 - 638 pages
...domestic band. He was wont to say: "Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest ; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions...beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. For no man can bear to... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1925 - 388 pages
...domestic band. He was wont to say: " Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions...beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. For no man can bear to... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...with the permission of Harcourt, Brace and Company, from Goethe's Literary Essays, by JE Spingarn. the impressions of the beautiful and perfect — that...study to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling the best things by every method in his power. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments;... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...with the permission of Harcourt, Brace and Company, from Goethe's Literary Essays, by JE Spingarn. the impressions of the beautiful and perfect — that...study to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling the best things by every method in his power. For no man can bear to be entirely deprived of such enjoyments;... | |
 | Judith K. Major - Architecture - 1997 - 268 pages
...sense grow dead to the impression of the Beautiful and the Perfect, that every person should strive to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things, by everything in his power, for no man can bear to be wholly deprived of such enjoyment; it is only because... | |
 | Charles Lemert - Social Science - 2006 - 216 pages
...be exclusive. (Mahatma Gandhi) Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions...beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. . . . For this reason,... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 1148 pages
...of sight. THE BEACTIPÜL. — Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest, the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that everyone should study to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things by every method in... | |
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