 | 1838 - 348 pages
...harvest to her manufacturers and merchants. To be continued. Goethe, in his Wilheim Meister, says — "Man's highest merit always is as much as possible...external circumstances, and as little as possible to be ruled by them. Life lies before us, as a huge quarry lies before the architect, except when out... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1848 - 672 pages
...your own most peculiar style ; and then what parts of it I cannot quite appropriate, I will endeavor to translate." " I may continue," he replied, " in...architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can comhine, with the greatest economy, suitableness and durahility, some form, the pattern of which originated... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1848 - 618 pages
...may continue,'' he replied, "in my own most peculiar way, without any alteration of my tone. Alan's highest merit always is as much as possible to rule...architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can comhine, with the greatest economy, suitableness and durahility, some form, the pattern of which originated... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1851 - 508 pages
...alteration of my tone. Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible to rule external cirI cumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled...by them. Life lies before us, as a huge quarry lies beI fore the architect ; he deserves not the name of architect, \except when, out of this fortuitous... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...to put a felt cowl upon thy head; be a darwesh in thy actions, and wear a Tartarian coronet. Sadi. Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible...before the architect; he deserves not the name of an architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy and... | |
 | Margaret Jane Cook Westcott - 1874 - 400 pages
...a right to remonstrate, he replied : "I believe with Goethe, that ' Man's highest merit always is, to rule external circumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.' Urge me no more to be what you yourselves would despise — a weakling, swayed by my fortunes into... | |
 | 1874 - 614 pages
...a vindication of the extremest claims of individual liberty based on unqualified scepticism : — ' Life lies before us as a huge quarry lies before the architect : none deserves the name of architect except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine with... | |
 | 1877 - 660 pages
...more unto the perfect day." I close with a very apt quotation from the great German poet Goethe:—" Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible...external circumstances, and as little as possible to be ruled by them." "But woe to him who, from his youth, has used himself to search in necessity for... | |
 | 1894 - 834 pages
...of hell, have grown from such seed as this! MAN SHOULD RULE CIRCUMSTANCES. — Man's highest merit is, as much as possible to rule external •circumstances,...before the architect; he deserves not the name of an architect except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine with the_ greatest econ•oiny... | |
 | Mary Frederica P. Dunbar - 1883 - 416 pages
...wiped away.' FANNV ROCHAT. April 22. A spirit generous, free, and kind. CRABBE. Man's highest virtue always is as much as possible to rule external circumstances,...little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. GOETHE. Guard that gentle heart from wrong That to its friend is glad to pass Itself away, and all... | |
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Man's highest merit always is as much as possible to rule external circumstances, and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. 
