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... beyond the narrow limits to which the over - rigour of Hebraising has tended to
confine it , we shall come again to Hebraism for that devout energy in embracing
our ideal , which alone can give to man - the happiness of doing what he knows ...
... beyond the narrow limits to which the over - rigour of Hebraising has tended to
confine it , we shall come again to Hebraism for that devout energy in embracing
our ideal , which alone can give to man - the happiness of doing what he knows ...
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... the desire for stopping human error , clearing Truman confusion , and
diminishing the sum of human misery , the noble aspiration to leave the world
better and happier than we found it , -motives eminently such as are called social
, -come in ...
... the desire for stopping human error , clearing Truman confusion , and
diminishing the sum of human misery , the noble aspiration to leave the world
better and happier than we found it , -motives eminently such as are called social
, -come in ...
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... the moment it is regarded not solely as the endeavour to see things as they are
, to draw towards a knowledge of the universal order which seems to be intended
and aimed at in the world , and which it is a man's happiness to go along with ...
... the moment it is regarded not solely as the endeavour to see things as they are
, to draw towards a knowledge of the universal order which seems to be intended
and aimed at in the world , and which it is a man's happiness to go along with ...
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of those gifts of thought and feeling which make the peculiar dignity , wealth , and
happiness of human nature . As I have said on a former occasion : “ It is in
making endless additions to itself , in the endless expansion of its powers , in
endless ...
of those gifts of thought and feeling which make the peculiar dignity , wealth , and
happiness of human nature . As I have said on a former occasion : “ It is in
making endless additions to itself , in the endless expansion of its powers , in
endless ...
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... stream sweeping thitherward ; and here , once more , it lays on us the same
obligation as religion , which says , as Bishop Wilson has admirably put it , that “
to promote the kingdom of God is to increase and hasten one's own happiness .
... stream sweeping thitherward ; and here , once more , it lays on us the same
obligation as religion , which says , as Bishop Wilson has admirably put it , that “
to promote the kingdom of God is to increase and hasten one's own happiness .
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action admiration aristocratic authority Barbarians beauty become believe bring character Christianity Church common consciousness culture danger desire England English establishments evidently feeling follow force forms future give habits hand happiness Hebraism Hebraism and Hellenism Hellenism human idea ideal increase individual intelligible interest kind Liberal Liberal friends live look machinery man's matter mean mechanical middle-class mind moral nature needful never Nonconformists operation ordinary ourselves perfection perhaps Philistines points political Populace population possible practical present Puritanism pursued race Reformation religion religious right reason rule seems seen sense side society sort speak spirit strength surely sweetness and light tell things thought tion true truth turn whole worship
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.
Bibliografische Informationen
| 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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