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The mind of man is a wonderful thing, but unless the soul of man is awakened he must lack faith, power, originality, ambition, those vital elements which make a man a real producer. I do not say that you can awaken this force in every soul. If you are an employer, perhaps only a few of all your employees can be made to understand.
Having ascertained that the provisioning could only be done by sea, Alexander said: "Dinocrates, I grant the beauty of your project; it pleases me, but I think that any one who should take it into his head to establish a colony in the place you propose would run the risk of being taxed with want of foresight; for, just as a child can neither feed nor develop without the milk of a nurse, so a city cannot increase without fertile fields, have a large population without plenty of food, and allow its inhabitants to subsist without rich harvests; so, while giving the originality of your plan my approval, I have to say to you that I disapprove of the place that you have selected for putting it into execution.
"Garrick," he said, "would talk from books, if he talked seriously." "I," said he, "do not talk from books; you do not talk from books." This was a compliment to my originality; but I am afraid I have not read books enough to be able to talk from them. Letters of Boswell, p. 181. See ante, ii. 360, where Johnson said to Boswell: 'I don't believe you have borrowed from Waller.
Some specimens of his formal official work might have been found in the archives of his office these would have been especially valuable for the identification of his handwriting and the settlement of disputed questions about the originality of manuscripts; but these documents, as it happens, were all burnt early in last century with the building containing them.
"As I glance over the page," she said, "I find that each of you has some distinct admirable sentiments; but in order to be impartial in my criticism to-day, I must concede the first place to: 'Singing the chrysanthemums; the second to: 'Asking the chrysanthemums; and the third to: 'Dreaming of chrysanthemums. The original nature of the themes makes the verses full of originality, and their conception still more original.
They were both numbered amongst her correspondents, and she promised to outvie them in originality and fertility of resource. What she chiefly wanted at Castlemount was a good listener, and Bessie Fairfax, as yet unprovided with a vocation, showed a fine turn that way. She reposed lazily at the end of Mrs.
In these first weeks among strangers she passed for nothing but an interesting-looking, timid, innocent, country child, never revealing, even to the far-seeing Emily Maxwell, a hint of her originality, facility, or power in any direction.
Kurtz characterizes Rothe as "one of the most profound thinkers of the century, equaled by none of his contemporaries in the grasp, depth, and originality of his speculation," and his "Theological Ethics" as "a work which in depth, originality, and conclusiveness of reasoning, is almost unapproached."
"From " broke in Bower, who was peeling one of the peaches bought at Calais. "From a village near Sheringham, in Norfolk." He nodded with smiling comprehension when she detailed her struggles with editors who could detect no originality in her literary work. "But that phase has passed now," he said encouragingly. "Well, it looks like it. I hope so; for I am tired of classifying beetles."
They are always realized, executed sculpture in a word whose suggestiveness, quite as potent as that of feebler executants, begins only when actual representation has been triumphantly achieved instead of impotently and skilfully avoided. Of Rude's genius one's first thought is of its robustness, its originality. Everything he did is stamped with the impress of his personality.
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