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 Thunderten-TronckhMatthew Arnold Macmillan, 1883 - 364 Seiten |
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... lives and thoughts to becoming rich , are just the very people whom we call Philistines . Culture says : " Consider these people , then , their way of life , their habits , their manners , the very tones of their voice ; look at them ...
... lives and thoughts to becoming rich , are just the very people whom we call Philistines . Culture says : " Consider these people , then , their way of life , their habits , their manners , the very tones of their voice ; look at them ...
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... lives for ! Such , I say , is the wonderful virtue of even the beginnings of perfection , of having conquered even the plain faults of our animality , that the religious organisa- tion which has helped us to do it can seem to us ...
... lives for ! Such , I say , is the wonderful virtue of even the beginnings of perfection , of having conquered even the plain faults of our animality , that the religious organisa- tion which has helped us to do it can seem to us ...
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... live in and for it , —so I say with regard to the religious organisations . Look at the life imaged in such a newspaper as the Non- conformist , a life of jealousy of the Establishment , disputes , tea - meetings , openings of chapels ...
... live in and for it , —so I say with regard to the religious organisations . Look at the life imaged in such a newspaper as the Non- conformist , a life of jealousy of the Establishment , disputes , tea - meetings , openings of chapels ...
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... live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light , where they may use ideas , as it uses them itself , freely , —nourished , and not bound by them . This is the social idea ; and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality . The ...
... live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light , where they may use ideas , as it uses them itself , freely , —nourished , and not bound by them . This is the social idea ; and the men of culture are the true apostles of equality . The ...
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... live , is that it is a system of checks , —a system which stops and paralyses any power in inter- fering with the free action of individuals . To this effect Mr. Bright , who loves to walk in the old ways of the Constitution , said ...
... live , is that it is a system of checks , —a system which stops and paralyses any power in inter- fering with the free action of individuals . To this effect Mr. Bright , who loves to walk in the old ways of the Constitution , said ...
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action admirable aristocracy aristocratic class Arminius Barbarians bathos beauty believe better Bishop Wilson Bottles British Philistine Christianity Church 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 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 218 - Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
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?
Seite 21 - 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 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 100 - I ask you whether, the world over or in past history, there is anything like it?
Seite 38 - Plenty of people will try to give the masses, as they call them, an intellectual food prepared and adapted in the way they think proper for the actual condition of the masses. The ordinary popular literature is an example of this way of working on the masses.
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 24 - Indeed, the strongest plea for the study of perfection as pursued by culture, the clearest proof of the actual inadequacy of the idea of perfection held by the religious organizations — expressing, as I have said, the most widespread effort which the human race has yet made after perfection...
Seite 85 - ... persons who are mainly led, not by their class, 'spirit, but by., a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection...
Seite 23 - In the same way let us judge the religious organizations which we see all around us. Do not let us deny the good and the happiness which they have accomplished; but do not let us fail to see clearly that their idea of human perfection is narrow...