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But the Nonconformists , and many of our Liberal friends along with them , have a
plausible plan for getting rid of this provincialism , if , as they can hardly quite
deny , it exists . “ Let us all be in the same boat , ” they cry ; “ open the Universities
...
But the Nonconformists , and many of our Liberal friends along with them , have a
plausible plan for getting rid of this provincialism , if , as they can hardly quite
deny , it exists . “ Let us all be in the same boat , ” they cry ; “ open the Universities
...
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seems to occur to him that the present troubled state of our social life has
anything to do with the thirty years ' blind worship of their nostrums by himself and
our Liberal friends , or that it throws any doubts upon the sufficiency of this
worship .
seems to occur to him that the present troubled state of our social life has
anything to do with the thirty years ' blind worship of their nostrums by himself and
our Liberal friends , or that it throws any doubts upon the sufficiency of this
worship .
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It is not fatal to our Liberal friends to labour for free trade , extension of the
suffrage , and abolition of church - rates , instead of graver social ends ; but it is
fatal to them to be told by their fatterers , and to believe , with our pauperism
increasing ...
It is not fatal to our Liberal friends to labour for free trade , extension of the
suffrage , and abolition of church - rates , instead of graver social ends ; but it is
fatal to them to be told by their fatterers , and to believe , with our pauperism
increasing ...
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And because machinery is the bane of politics , and an inward working , and not
machinery , is what we most want , we keep advising our ardent young Liberal
friends to think less of machinery , to stand more aloof from the arena of politics at
...
And because machinery is the bane of politics , and an inward working , and not
machinery , is what we most want , we keep advising our ardent young Liberal
friends to think less of machinery , to stand more aloof from the arena of politics at
...
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1 In one of his speeches a year or two ago , that fine speaker and famous Liberal
, Mr. Bright , took occasion to have a fling at the friends and preachers of culture .
“ People who talk about what they call culture ! ” said he contemptuously ; " by ...
1 In one of his speeches a year or two ago , that fine speaker and famous Liberal
, Mr. Bright , took occasion to have a fling at the friends and preachers of culture .
“ People who talk about what they call culture ! ” said he contemptuously ; " by ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 187 - 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? thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Seite 49 - The great men of culture are those who have had a passion for diffusing, for making prevail, for carrying from one end of society to the other, the best knowledge, the best ideas of their time...
Seite 49 - Ages, in spite of all his imperfections ; and thence the boundless emotion and enthusiasm which Abelard excited. Such were Lessing and Herder in Germany, at the end of the last century ; and their services to Germany were in this way inestimably precious. Generations will pass, and literary monuments will accumulate, and works far more perfect than the works of Lessing and Herder will be produced in Germany; and yet...
Seite 26 - 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.
Seite 128 - I look around me and ask what is the state of England ? Is not every man able to say what he likes? I ask you whether the world over, or in past history, there is anything like it ? Nothing. I pray that our unrivalled happiness may last.
Seite 22 - Bodily exercise profiteth little ; but godliness is profitable unto all things," says the author of the Epistle to Timothy. And the utilitarian Franklin says just as explicitly : — " Eat and drink such an exact quantity as suits the constitution of thy body^ in reference to the services of the mind...
Seite 45 - From the moment of reading that, I am delivered from the bondage of Bentham! the fanaticism of his adherents can touch me no longer. I feel the inadequacy of his mind and ideas for supplying the rule of human society, for perfection.
Seite 44 - Does your Majesty imagine that Job's good conduct is the effect of mere personal attachment and affection?" I well remember how, when first I read that, I drew a deep breath of relief, and said to myself: "After all, there is a stretch of humanity beyond Franklin's victorious good sense...
Seite 21 - Why, one has heard people, fresh from reading certain articles of the Times on the Registrar-General's returns of marriages and births in this country, who would talk of our large English families in quite a solemn strain, as if they had something in itself beautiful, elevating, and meritorious in them...
Seite 10 - ... the danger now is, not that people should obstinately refuse to allow anything but their old routine to pass for reason and the will of God, but either that they should allow some novelty or other to pass for these too easily, or else that they should underrate the importance of them altogether, and think it enough to follow action for its own sake, without troubling themselves to make reason and the will of God prevail therein.
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| Titel | Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism Online access with subscription: Proquest Literature Online |
| Autor/in | Matthew Arnold |
| Verlag | Smith, Elder & Company, 1869 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 20. März 2006 |
| Länge | 272 Seiten |
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