 ... from the simplicity and charm of this ideal, Hellenism, and human life in the hands of Hellenism, is invested with a kind of aerial ease, clearness, and radiancy ; they are full of what we call sweetness and light. Difficulties are kept out of view,...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 654edited by - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 350 pages
...what we call sweetness and light. Difficulties are kept out of view, and the beauty and rationalness of the ideal have all our thoughts. " The best man...that it seems to fill us with clearness and hope when we hear it. But there is a saying which I have heard attributed to Mr. Carlyle about Socrates, —... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 354 pages
...o-«tM^e^a^t..^i»^^^^i^""L!iV&«rf^et!i»i^—-,^^ "The best man is he who Hebralsmjg-T.aad .here is the sou most tries to perfect himself, and the happiest man...— this account of the matter by Socrates, the true f Socrates of the Memorabilia, has something so simple, spontaneous, and unsophisticated about it,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English prose literature - 1880 - 352 pages
...what we call sweetness and light. Difficulties are kept out of view, and the beauty and rationalness of the ideal have all our thoughts. ' The best man...that it seems to fill us with clearness and hope when we hear it. — Culture and Anarchy. HEBRAISM. As Hellenism speaks of thinking clearly, seeing things... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1883 - 420 pages
...what we call sweetness and light. Difficulties are kept out of view, and the beauty and rationalness of the ideal have all our thoughts. "The best man...that it seems to fill us with clearness and hope when we hear it. But there is a saying which I have heard attributed to Mr. Carlyle about Socrates, —... | |
 | Medicine - 1886 - 596 pages
...A lady wh« was present mildly suggested that she had rather be his ham than his patient. SOCRATES: The best man is he who most tries to perfect himself,...is he who most feels that he is perfecting himself. DR. T. GAILLARD THOMAS announces that he has removed from 294 Fifth Avenue, New York, to GOO Madison... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1891 - 438 pages
...what we call sweetness and light. Difficulties are kept out of view, and the beauty and rationalness of the ideal have all our thoughts. "The best man...that it seems to fill us with clearness and hope when we hear it. JBut there is a saying which I have heard attributed to Mr. Carlyle about Socrates, —... | |
 | Humanities - 1910 - 404 pages
...we may gladly accept it ; for then it will mean something of what Socrates meant when he said that the best man is he who most tries to perfect himself, and the happiest man he who most feels that he is perfecting himself. "The formation of character" as interpreted by Christ... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1894 - 340 pages
...comely fashion to be glad — Joy is the grace we say to God." 2 " The best man," said Socrates, " is he who most tries to perfect himself, and the happiest...he who most feels that he is perfecting himself." 1 Jeremy Taylor. a Jean Ingelow. CHAPTER XIX RELIGION IF the Religion of Theology is still a mystery... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 456 pages
...to perfect himself, and the happiest man is he who most feels that he is perfecting him30 self," — this account of the matter by Socrates, the true Socrates...that it seems to fill us with clearness and hope when we hear it. But there is a saying which I have heard attributed to Mr. Carlyle about SocVates, —... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 460 pages
...we 25 call sweetness and light. Difficulties are kept out of view, and the beauty and rationalness of the ideal have all our thoughts. " The best man...happiest man is he who most feels that he is perfecting himthat it seems to fill us with clearness and hope when we hear it. But there is a saying which I... | |
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