 | John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - 1832 - 314 pągines
...fulfilment of that undertaking, " The noblest eye is darkened," said Castelli, " which nature ever made : an eye so privileged, and gifted with such rare qualities,...may with truth be said to have seen more than all those who are gone, and to have opened the eyes of all who are to come." His own patience and resignation... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pągines
...fulfilment of that undertaking. "The noblest eye is darkened," said Castelli, " which nature ever made: an eye so privileged, and gifted with such rare qualities,...and to have opened the eyes of all who are to come." His own patience and resignation under this fatal calamity are truly wonderful ; and if occasionally... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pągines
...fulfilment of that undertaking. "The noblest eye is darkened," said Castelli, " which nature ever made: an eye so privileged, and gifted with such rare qualities,...and to have opened the eyes of all who are to come." His own patience and resignation under this fatal calamity are truly wonderful ; and if occasionally... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pągines
...fulfilment of that undertaking. "The noblest eye is darkened," said Castelli, " which nature ever made : an eye so privileged, and gifted with such rare qualities,...and to have opened the eyes of all who are to come." His own patience and resignation under this fatal calamity are truly wonderful ; and if occasionally... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 pągines
...Castelli, recording his blindness, exclaims, " The noblest eye is darkened which nature ever made, — an " eye so privileged, and gifted with such rare...may with truth be said to have seen more than all those " who are gone, and to have opened the eyes of all who are " to come." What a lesson of sublime... | |
 | Stephen Collins - 1842 - 318 pągines
...Priest of the Stars." "The noblest eye," says father Castelli, speaking of the blindness of Galileo, "The noblest eye which nature ever made, is darkened; an eye so privileged, and gifted with such race powers, that it may be truly said to have seen more than the eyes of all that are gone; and to... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1853 - 646 pągines
...please me also." " The noblest eye is darkened," said one of his friends, " which nature ever made ; an eye so privileged, and gifted with such rare qualities,...and to have opened the eyes of all who are to come." It was truly a heavy calamity for such a man ! The intelligent eye which night after night, in many... | |
 | William White Cooper - 1853 - 340 pągines
...calamity in the same tone of pathetic sublimity : " The noblest eye," says he, " which ever nature made, is darkened — an eye so privileged, and gifted with such rare powers, that it may truly be said to have seen more than the eyes of all that are gone, and to have... | |
 | James Henry Clark - 1856 - 382 pągines
...cause. His friend, Father Castelli, thus deplores the calamity : " The noblest eye which ever nature made is darkened — an eye so privileged, and gifted with such rare powers, that it may truly be said to have seen more than the eyes of all that are gone, and to have... | |
 | James Henry Clark - 1859 - 374 pągines
...same cause. His friend, Father CastelU, thus deplores the calamity: "The noblest eye which ever nature made is darkened— an eye so privileged, and gifted with such rare powers, that it may truly be said to have seen more than the eyes of all that are gone, and to have... | |
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The noblest eye is darkened," said Castelli, " which nature ever made: an eye so privileged, and gifted with such rare qualities, that it may with truth be said to have seen more than all of those who are gone, and to have opened the eyes of all who are... 
