 Engineer, will agree that the idea which culture sets before us of perfection, — an increased spiritual activity, having for its characters increased sweetness, increased light, increased life, increased sympathy, — is an idea which the new democracy...  The Cornhill Magazine - Seite 50herausgegeben von - 1867Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1867 - 796 Seiten
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that it is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,... | |
 | 1867
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that it is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 350 Seiten
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that this is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 354 Seiten
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that this is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who | has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of... | |
 | John Campbell Shairp - 1870 - 174 Seiten
...since Mr. Arnold reproduced them, have become proverbial, ' Sweetness and Light ' — ' An inward and spiritual activity having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy.' The age of the world in which these two, ' sweetness and light,' were pre-eminently combined was, Mr.... | |
 | 1870 - 494 Seiten
...perfection (of the soul, the man and his life, and of men in their social relations) ; it is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Elsewhere he maintains, as we understand him, that perfect culture unites the advantages and avoids... | |
 | D. S. Gregory - 1875 - 364 Seiten
...become secondary to culture. The age of the world, in which "sweetness and light" — "an inward and spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy" — were pre-eminently combined, was the best age of Athens, that which is represented in the poetry... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1879 - 746 Seiten
...powers which make the beauty and the worth of human nature ; and the ideal of perfection is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy." The author of Culture and Anarchy went on to show how the pursuit of perfection and the elevation of... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 420 Seiten
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that this is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 348 Seiten
...may with advantage continue to uphold steadily its ideal of human perfection ; that this is an inward spiritual activity, having for its characters increased...increased light, increased life, increased sympathy. Mr. Bright, who has a foot in both worlds, the world of middle-class liberalism and the world of democracy,... | |
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