 | Ulysses Robert Brooks - 1909 - 642 sider
...Thomas Carlyle says : "One comfort is, that great men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great...without gaining something by him. He is the living light fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. The' light enlightens, which has enlightened... | |
 | Ulysses Robert Brooks - 1909 - 620 sider
...something by him. He is the living light fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. The light enlightens, which has enlightened the darkness of the world, and this not as a kindred lamp only, but as a natural luminary shining by the gift of Heaven ; a flowing light fountain... | |
 | Anna Mary Galbraith - 1911 - 470 sider
...impression which is made on the mind and character by the kind of books which they read. Carlyle said, " We cannot look however imperfectly upon a great man without gaining something from him." And to this statement might well be added, it is impossible for the mind to be brought into... | |
 | Frank Honywell Fenno - 1912 - 348 sider
...The artist who has the power to awaken within us the Divine aspiration for Good becomes our hero. " He is the living light-fountain, which it is good...enlightened the darkness of the world; and this not as kindled by a lamp only, but rather as a natural luminary shining by the gift of heaven; a flowing life... | |
 | Julia Williams Sheehy - 1913 - 264 sider
...a great man with mankind. One comfort is that great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great...something by him. He is the living light-fountain which is good and pleasant to be near — the light which enlightens and has enlightened the world ; and... | |
 | 1913 - 756 sider
...community. Our modern world knows too little of that hero worship which Carliyle so valiently defended. "We cannot look however imperfectly upon a great man without gaining something from him He is a natural luminary offering by the gift of heaven, a flaming light-fountain, as I say,... | |
 | George Frederick Bosworth - 1914 - 230 sider
...is 'very wise on our part to honour our great men, and Carlyle was quite right when he said that " we cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him." The same writer also reminds us that " great men, taken in any way, are profitable company" ; and so... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1915 - 302 sider
...comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We can not look, how- s>ever imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him. He is the living light- fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. The light which enlightens, which has enlightened... | |
 | Ramiro de Maeztu - 1916 - 294 sider
...Great Men is the history of what man has accomplished in this world." And where Carlyle tells us : "We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him," let us read : " We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great thing, without gaining something... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 376 sider
...justice to in this place! One comfort is, that Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great...without gaining something by him. He is the living light-f ountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. The light which enlightens, which has enlightened... | |
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We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him. He is the living light-fountain, which it is good and pleasant to be near. 
