Samuel DanielСэмюэл Даниэль
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.
6. Только в буре вполне выказывается искусство мореплавателя, только на поле сражения испытывается храбрость воина; мужество же человека познается только по тому, чем он является в затруднительных и опасных положениях жизни.
6. Only in a storm is a sailor’s skill fully shown; only on the battlefield is a soldier’s bravery tested; and a man’s courage is known only by what he proves to be in the hard and dangerous straits of life.
Probably from Samuel Daniel, verse epistle "To Henry Wriothesly, Earle of Southamton" · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
Not in Leo Tolstoy as EditorSamuel Daniel is only a candidate; the pilot and soldier images are Seneca’s, and Tolstoy’s source was not found.
Daniel’s own wordsHENRY WRIOTHESLY Earle of Southamton.
And what they are, in their extremities.
Source text: archive.orgDetails
A likely source, not certain. Samuel Daniel, verse epistle "To Henry Wriothesly, Earle of Southamton" (1603), in The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Samuel Daniel, ed. A. B. Grosart, vol. 1 (1885), Closing couplet of the first stanza (Grosart vol. 1, p. 217).
Russian texts of the period spell the poet Samuel Daniel 'Даниэль', and his epistle ends its first stanza on the same thought: only in extremities do men show their abilities 'and what they are'. The pilot and soldier images are not in Daniel. They are Seneca's (De Providentia 4.5, 'gubernatorem in tempestate, in acie militem intellegas'), and Daniel's epistle draws on that same essay for its Latin motto (2.6). Tolstoy's actual source, probably an anthology, was not found.
Searched: Web search, Russian and English, for the sentence and variants (pilot/sailor in storm, soldier in battle); ru.wikisource search; archive.org full-text search for 'pilot in a storm' + 'soldier in battle' + Daniel (finds only translations of Seneca's De Providentia), 'skill of the pilot', 'is known in the storm'; anthologies on Tolstoy's source list: Southgate's Many Thoughts of Many Minds and Suggestive Thoughts on Religious Subjects (whose index lists Samuel Daniel), Coit's The Message of Man; Tileston's Daily Strength for Daily Needs; Grosart's Daniel vol. 1 searched for 'pilot' and 'extremities'. Seneca's Latin of De Providentia 4.5 was consulted.