Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism : And, Friendship's Garland : Being the Conversations, Letters, and Opinions of the Late Arminius, Baron Von Thunderten-TronckhMatthew Arnold |
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... nature . This would be more of a reproach to us if in poetry , which requires , no less than religion , a true ... human nature is lost , and which have therefore , as spiritual productions , in their contents something excessive and ...
... nature . This would be more of a reproach to us if in poetry , which requires , no less than religion , a true ... human nature is lost , and which have therefore , as spiritual productions , in their contents something excessive and ...
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... human nature will not allow one member to be indifferent to the rest or to have a perfect welfare independent of the rest , the expansion of our humanity , to suit the idea of perfection which culture forms , must be a general expansion ...
... human nature will not allow one member to be indifferent to the rest or to have a perfect welfare independent of the rest , the expansion of our humanity , to suit the idea of perfection which culture forms , must be a general expansion ...
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... human nature and human experience learns to conceive it , -is a har- monious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature , and is not con- sistent with the over - development of any one power at the ...
... human nature and human experience learns to conceive it , -is a har- monious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature , and is not con- sistent with the over - development of any one power at the ...
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... condition of the mind and spirit is at variance with the mechanical and material civilisation in esteem with us , and ... human nature is at variance with our want of flexibility , with our inaptitude for seeing more than one side of a ...
... condition of the mind and spirit is at variance with the mechanical and material civilisation in esteem with us , and ... human nature is at variance with our want of flexibility , with our inaptitude for seeing more than one side of a ...
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... human per- fection simply and broadly in view , and not assigning to this ... nature not finely tempered , - " to give your- selves up to things which ... nature , gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to con- ceive ...
... human per- fection simply and broadly in view , and not assigning to this ... nature not finely tempered , - " to give your- selves up to things which ... nature , gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to con- ceive ...
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Page 218 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
Page 145 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
Page 21 - But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance ; it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Page 119 - Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Page 100 - I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it?
Page 38 - Plenty of people will try to give the masses, as they call them, an intellectual food prepared and adapted in the way they think proper for the actual condition of the masses. The ordinary popular literature is an example of this way of working on the masses.
Page 35 - We all recollect the famous verse in our translation: "Then Satan answered the Lord, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?" Franklin makes this : " Does your Majesty imagine that Job's good conduct is the effect of mere personal attachment and affection...
Page 24 - Indeed, the strongest plea for the study of perfection as pursued by culture, the clearest proof of the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations — expressing, as I have said, the most widespread effort which the human race has yet made after perfection...
Page 85 - ... persons who are mainly led, not by their class, 'spirit, but by., a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection...
Page 23 - In the same way let us judge the religious organizations which we see all around us. Do not let us deny the good and the happiness which they have accomplished; but do not let us fail to see clearly that their idea of human perfection is narrow...