| 1905 - 934 pages
...strongly felt by the workmen actually engaged on the building, and could not fail to affect their work. In the elder days of Art Builders wrought with greatest...minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere. Solomon's temple itself was not regarded with greater veneration or more intense solicitnde by pious... | |
| 1910 - 700 pages
...am going to write you three letters and see if I recet a picture from you. Good by. Truly yours, ' In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest...minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere. ; Let us do our work as well. Both the unseen and the seen; Make the house, where gods may dwell, Beautiful,... | |
| Edward Hungerford Goddard - 1857 - 462 pages
...utterances have found an echo in the hearts of thousands, has these lines — -- In the elder daya of ait Builders wrought with greatest care, Each minute and unseen part, For the gods are everywhere." Now this is strictly true; it is an archaeological fact. Examine any one of our cathedrals,... | |
| 1912 - 1226 pages
...elaborate than others. It would seem, Indeed, that the builders had taken to heart the poet's lesson: "In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest...minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere." site is now the beautiful Temple block, around which the city has grown. In February, 1853, the Temple... | |
| 1982 - 348 pages
...these; Leave no yawning gaps between; Think not, because no man sees, Such things will remain unseen. In the elder days of art, Builders wrought with greatest...minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen; Make the house, where gods may dwell, Beautiful,... | |
| Ludwig Wittgenstein - 1984 - 196 pages
...katholische Faust zum aufgeklärten, etc. etc. Nichts ist so schwer, als sich nicht betrügen. Longfellow: In the elder days of art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods are everywhere. (Könnte mir als ein Motto dienen.) Erscheinungen mit sprachähnlichem Charakter in... | |
| Harry G. Frankfurt - 1988 - 204 pages
...are. Wittgenstein once said that the following bit of verse by Longfellow could serve him as a motto:5 In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere, The point of these lines is clear. In the old days, craftsmen did not cut corners.... | |
| John Hollander - 1990 - 280 pages
...[Philosophic dUrfte man eigentlich nun dichten], coupled with his quotation of Longfellow: In the cIder days of art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods are everywhere to which he added “(This could serve me as a motto)?' 4 Yet this did not make him... | |
| Lois Kerr - 1996 - 260 pages
...to them, the same we bring back more fairly illustrated in the memory. RALPH WALDO EMERSON Character In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest...minute and unseen part; For the Gods see everywhere. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Builders, St. 5 Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing... | |
| Laura M. Berquist - 1999 - 500 pages
...these; Leave no yawning gaps between; Think not, because no man sees, Such things will remain unseen. In the elder days of Art, Builders wrought with greatest...minute and unseen part; For the gods see everywhere. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen; Make the house where gods may dwell Beautiful,... | |
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