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 Thunder-ten-TronckhMatthew Arnold Macmillan, 1894 - 364 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 33
Seite xix
... comes to mistake for essential , and a thousand times the more readily because he has chosen it of himself ; and religious activity he fancies to consist in battling for it . All this leaves him little leisure or inclination for culture ...
... comes to mistake for essential , and a thousand times the more readily because he has chosen it of himself ; and religious activity he fancies to consist in battling for it . All this leaves him little leisure or inclination for culture ...
Seite xxii
... comes M. Renan , and says : " The sound instruction of the people is an effect of the high culture of certain classes . The countries which , like the United States , have created a considerable popular instruction without any serious ...
... comes M. Renan , and says : " The sound instruction of the people is an effect of the high culture of certain classes . The countries which , like the United States , have created a considerable popular instruction without any serious ...
Seite 10
... comes to a conclusion identical with that which culture , -culture seeking the de- termination of this question through all the voices of human experience which have been heard upon it , of art , science , poetry , philosophy , history ...
... comes to a conclusion identical with that which culture , -culture seeking the de- termination of this question through all the voices of human experience which have been heard upon it , of art , science , poetry , philosophy , history ...
Seite 19
... comes itself , after all , from this wonderful significance of the Greeks having affected the very machinery of our education , and is in itself a kind of homage to it . In thus making sweetness and light to be charac- ters of ...
... comes itself , after all , from this wonderful significance of the Greeks having affected the very machinery of our education , and is in itself a kind of homage to it . In thus making sweetness and light to be charac- ters of ...
Seite 51
... come , he comes in immense numbers , and is rather raw and rough . But he does not break many laws , or not many at one time ; and , as our laws were made for very different circumstances from our present ( but always with an eye to ...
... come , he comes in immense numbers , and is rather raw and rough . But he does not break many laws , or not many at one time ; and , as our laws were made for very different circumstances from our present ( but always with an eye to ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action admirable aristocracy aristocratic class Arminius Barbarians bathos beauty believe better Bishop Wilson Bottles British Philistine Christianity consciousness culture Daily Telegraph Dissenters energy England English establishments feeling force foreign France Frederic Harrison free-trade French Geist Germany give Government Grub Street happy Hebraism Hebraism and Hellenism Hellenism Hittall human nature human perfection idea intelligible law kind law of things Liberal friends liberty look Lord Lord Palmerston Lumpington machinery man's Matthew Arnold mean mechanical ment middle class mind moral nation never newspapers Nonconformists operation ordinary ourselves PALL MALL GAZETTE passion perhaps Philistines political poor Populace present Protestantism Prussian Puritanism race reform religion religious organisations right reason seems sense side society sophisms sort speak spirit stock notions sure sweetness and light talk tell thing needful thought tion true whole words worship
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 119 - Let no man deceive you with vain words : for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Seite 38 - ... who have laboured to divest knowledge of all that was harsh, uncouth, difficult, abstract, professional, exclusive; to humanise it, to make it efficient outside the clique of the cultivated and learned, yet still remaining the best knowledge and thought of the time, and a true source, therefore, of sweetness and light.
Seite 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? Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Seite 16 - And thus culture begets a dissatisfaction which is of the highest possible value in stemming the common tide of men's thoughts in a wealthy and industrial community, and which saves the future, as one may hope, from being vulgarized, even if it cannot save the present.
Seite 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...
Seite 63 - ... the qualities of its mean and of its excess, and on the whole, of course, as human nature is constituted, inclining rather towards the excess than the mean. Of its excess no better representative can possibly be imagined than a Dissenting minister from Walsall, who came before the public in connection with the proceedings at Birmingham of Mr. Murphy, already mentioned. Speaking in the midst of an irritated population of Catholics, this Walsall gentleman exclaimed : "I say, then, away with the...
Seite 214 - ... to preserve, while they can be preserved, pure and untainted, the ancient, inbred integrity, piety, good nature, and good humour of the people of England...
Seite 14 - ... but machinery? Now almost every voice in England is accustomed to speak of these things as if they were precious ends in themselves, and therefore had some of the characters of perfection indisputably joined to them. I have before now noticed Mr.
Seite 85 - ... persons who are mainly led, not by their class spirit, but by a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection ; and that this number is capable of being diminished or augmented.
Seite xi - The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world ; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly...