 | Thomas Carlyle - 1825 - 368 pages
...distinct comprehension ; but when I had done, he shook his ' head and said : ' This is no experiment, this is an idea.' I ' stopt with some degree of irritation ; for the point which ' separated us was most luminously marked by this expres' sion. The opinions in Dignity and Grace, again occurred ' to... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - Authors, German - 1825 - 374 pages
...distinct comprehension; but when I had done, he shook his ' head and said: ' This is no experiment, this is an idea.' I ' stopt with some degree of irritation; for the point which ' separated us was most luminously marked by this expres' sion. The opinions in Dignity and Grace, again occurred ' to... | |
 | Constable and co, ltd - 1828 - 640 pages
...distinct comprehension ; but when I had done, he shook his head and said, " This is no experiment, this is an idea. " I stopt with some degree of irritation ; for the point which separated us was most luminously marked by this expression. The opinions in Dignity and Grace, again occurred to me... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - German drama - 1833 - 334 pages
...distinct comprehension ; but when I had done, he shook his head and said: ' This is no experiment, this is an idea.' I stopt with some degree of irritation ; for the point which separated us was most luminously marked by this expression. The opinions in Dignity and Grace, again occurred to me... | |
 | William Whewell - Induction (Logic) - 1837 - 646 pages
...paper, with many characteristic strokes, a symbolic plant before his eyes. He heard me," Gb'the says', " with much interest and distinct comprehension; but...marked most luminously by this expression." And in the Viele namen horest du an, und immer verdriingct, Mil barbarischcm klang, einer den andern im ohr. A... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 1046 pages
...paper, with many characteristic strokes, a symbolic plant before his eyes. He heard me," Gb'the says8, " with much interest and distinct comprehension ; but...marked most luminously by this expression." And in the Viele namen horest du an, und immer verdranget, Mil harbarischem klang, einer den andern im ohr. Alle... | |
 | Charles Follen - 1837 - 336 pages
...distinct comprehension ; but when I had done, he shook his head and said: ' This is no experiment, this is an idea.' I stopt with some degree of irritation ; for the point which separated us was most luminously marked by this expression. The opinions in Dignity and Grace, again occurred to me... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...distinct comprehension ; but when I had done, he shook his head and said : ' This is no experiment, this is an idea.' I stopt with some degree of irritation ; for the point which separated us was most luminously marked by this expression. The opinions in Dignity and Grace again occurred to * A... | |
 | American periodicals - 1862 - 656 pages
...comprehension ; but when I had done, he shook his head, and said : ' This is no experiment ; this is nn idea.' I stopt with some degree ; of irritation ; for the point which separated us was most luminously marked by this ex- j pression. The opinions in ' Grace and Dignity ' agaiu occurred... | |
 | American literature - 1856 - 606 pages
...accepting the explanation, he said, 'this is not Observation, but an Idea.' I replied," adds Goethe, "with some degree of irritation, for the point which separated us was most luminously marked by this expression ; but I smothered my vexation, and merely said, ' I was happy... | |
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He heard and saw all this, with much interest and distinct comprehension ; but when I had done, he shook his head and said : ' This is no experiment, this is an idea. 
