 | 1867 - 796 Seiten
...there is an end of tho greatness of England. But what is greatness? — culture makes us ask. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest,...admiration. If England were swallowed up by the sea to morrow, which, a hundred years hence, would most excite the love, interest, and admiration of mankind,... | |
 | 1867 - 1618 Seiten
...there is an end of the greatness of England. But what is greatness? — culture makes us ask. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest,...England were swallowed up by the sea to-morrow, which, a hundred years hence, would most excite the love, interest, and admiration of mankind, — would most,... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 800 Seiten
...is an end of the greatness of England. But what is greatness ? — culture makes us ask. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest,...England were swallowed up by the sea to-morrow, which, a hundred years hence, would most excite the love, interest, and admiration of mankind, — would most,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 344 Seiten
...is an end of the greatness of England. But what is greatness ? — culture makes us ask. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest,...admiration of mankind, — would most, therefore, show tKe" evidences of having possessed greatness, — theT^ngland of the last twenty years, or the England... | |
 | Helen Mathers - 1881 - 780 Seiten
...they say what they like, is worth saying, has good in it, and more good than bad ; . . . . greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest,...is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. Greece did not err in having the idea of beauty and perfection so present and paramount, only the moral... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 Seiten
...disgraceful puerility. 2206 Amiel : Journal, March 17, 1868. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest,...is, that we excite love, interest, and admiration. 2207 Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy. Sweetness and Light. Greatness, after all, in spite of its... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 714 Seiten
...elemental birth, and is independent alike of its time and its circumstances, ft'. Winter. Greatness ut men's throats with whisperings. Ben Jenson. Cut ofl* greatness is that we excite love, interest, and admiration. Mat' thew Arnold. Greatness is its own... | |
 | Robert Blatchford - 1895 - 200 Seiten
...hardly go further. — Richard fejf cries. If England were swallowed up by the sea to-morrow, wh1ch of the two, a hundred years hence, would most excite...admiration of mankind — would most, therefore, show the evidence of having possessed greatness— the England of the last twenty years, or the England of Elizabeth,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 56 Seiten
...there is an end of the greatness of England. But what is greatness ? culture makes us ask. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest,...admiration. If England were swallowed up by the sea to- . morrow, which of the two, a hundred years hence, would most excite the love, interest, and admiration... | |
 | Samuel Train Dutton - 1896 - 168 Seiten
...belongs to his race, and that what God gives him he gives him for mankind. — Phillips Brooks. Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest...greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration. — Matthew Arnold. LXI. The name of Benjamin Franklin will ever be a precious memory in the hearts... | |
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