Lajos KossuthЛайош Кошут
1 passageотрывков: 1
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
5. Язык человека — достаточное орудие, чтобы передать идеи, возникающие в человеческом уме; но в области истинного и глубокого чувства он только слабый переводчик.
5. Man’s tongue is an adequate tool for conveying the ideas that arise in the human mind; but in the realm of true and deep feeling it is only a feeble interpreter.
From Quoted in Henry Southgate, Suggestive Thoughts on Religious Subjects · shortened by Tolstoy (more).
What Tolstoy read · Southgate, Suggestive Thoughts on Religious SubjectsThese are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent. Louis Kossuth.
Source text: archive.orgIn EnglishThe tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives, but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Quoted in Henry Southgate, Suggestive Thoughts on Religious Subjects (under "Tongue"), Southgate, Suggestive Thoughts, s.v. "TONGUE—The, can Render the Ideas of the Intellect, not of the Heart"; Kossuth's own speech not located.
Kossuth spoke and wrote this in English (Southgate gives no work). Tolstoy's Russian of the first sentence is faithful ('powerful enough' → «достаточное орудие»); he drops the second ('These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent').