Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism |
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It is true , the Imitation could not well have been written by an Englishman ; the religious delicacy and the profound asceticism of that admirable book are hardly in our nature . This would be more of a reproach to us if in poetry ...
It is true , the Imitation could not well have been written by an Englishman ; the religious delicacy and the profound asceticism of that admirable book are hardly in our nature . This would be more of a reproach to us if in poetry ...
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... desire to help the clergy and to harm the Dissenters . More than a few words we must give to showing how erroneous are these charges ; because if they were true , we should be actually subverting our own design , and playing X PREFACE .
... desire to help the clergy and to harm the Dissenters . More than a few words we must give to showing how erroneous are these charges ; because if they were true , we should be actually subverting our own design , and playing X PREFACE .
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But culture , which is the study of perfection , leads us , as we in the following pages have shown , to conceive of true human perfection as a harmonious perfection , developing all sides of our humanity ; and as a general perfection ...
But culture , which is the study of perfection , leads us , as we in the following pages have shown , to conceive of true human perfection as a harmonious perfection , developing all sides of our humanity ; and as a general perfection ...
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But a lover of perfection , who looks to inward ripeness for the true springs of conduct , will surely think that as Shakspeare has done more for the inward ripeness of our statesmen than Dr. Watts , and has , therefore , done more to ...
But a lover of perfection , who looks to inward ripeness for the true springs of conduct , will surely think that as Shakspeare has done more for the inward ripeness of our statesmen than Dr. Watts , and has , therefore , done more to ...
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... knowledge of their business , does not serve to the higher spiritual life of a nation so much as culture , truly conceived , serves ; and a true conception of culture is , as M. Renan's words show , just what America fails in .
... knowledge of their business , does not serve to the higher spiritual life of a nation so much as culture , truly conceived , serves ; and a true conception of culture is , as M. Renan's words show , just what America fails in .
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