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= such.

This passage struck me most, +diese Stelle machte am meisten Eindruck auf mich+.

trying = and try.

+wie´dergeben+, sep. comp. str. v. tr.

This does not answer my purpose, +dies entspricht meinem Zwecke nicht+.

+über+.

= obtain.

+welcher sich nicht schon in der Jugend in schriftlichen Aufsätzen übt.+

Section 164.

HUMILITY.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is his humility. I do not mean by humility, doubt of his own power, or hesitation in speaking his opinions, but a right understanding of the relation between what he can do and say, and the rest of the world’s sayings and doings. All great men not only know their business, but usually know that they know it; they are not only right in their main opinions, but they usually know that they are right in them (S. 4, N. 5, B); only they do not think much of themselves on that account. Arnolfo knows he can build a good dome at Florence; Albert Dürer writes calmly to one who had found fault with his work: “It cannot be better done;” Sir Isaac Newton knows that he has worked out a problem or two that would have puzzled anybody else:—only they do not expect their fellow-men therefore to fall down and worship them; they have a curious under-sense of powerlessness, feeling (S. 30, N. 4) that the greatness is not in them, but through them; that they could (App. § 33) not do or be anything else than what God made them. They see something divine and God-made in every other man, and are endlessly, nay incredibly merciful.—ANONYMOUS.

= best; test, +Prüfstein+, m.

+unter+, which place at the head of the period; mean = understand.

+an+, with the Dat.

here +Unentschlossenheit+.

+aus´sprechen.+

+von.+

= and of that which the remaining world can say and do.

= understand.

+Sache+, f.

+wissen+, after which insert the adv. +auch+.

that they understand the same (to agree with +Sache+).

+Hauptansichten.+

on that account, +deswegen+, which place after the Subj.; to think much of oneself, +eine große Meinung von sich haben+.

+~Arnolfo di Cambio~, berühmter Baumeister und Bildhauer zu Florenz (1232-1300), baute den Dom+ St. Maria del fiore +zu Florenz und das Tabernakel zu St. Paolo in Rom.+

= stately.

+~Albrecht Dürer~, geboren den 20. Mai 1471 zu Nürnberg, gestorben den 6. April 1528 ebendaselbst, muß zu den hervorragendsten und vielseitigsten Künstlern gezählt werden, die je gelebt. Er war nicht allein ausgezeichneter Maler, sondern auch zugleich Kupferstecher+ (engraver on copper), +Formschneider+ (moulder), +Bildhauer+ (sculptor), +Architekt und Schriftsteller+ (author) +über die Kunst. Er war der Erfinder der Ätzkunst, erfand das Mittel, die Holzschnitte mit ~zwei~ Farben zu drucken, und vervollkommnete die Schriftgießerei+ (type-foundry), +~denn von ihm stammt die Form der deutschen Lettern~+.

+gelassen+; one, +jemand+.