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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Seite xi
... 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 which makes up for the mischief of ...
... 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 which makes up for the mischief of ...
Seite xiii
... turn a free and fresh stream of thought upon the whole matter in question . In a thing of more immediate interest , just now , than any question of an Academy , the like misunderstanding prevails ; and until it is dissipated , culture ...
... turn a free and fresh stream of thought upon the whole matter in question . In a thing of more immediate interest , just now , than any question of an Academy , the like misunderstanding prevails ; and until it is dissipated , culture ...
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... turn for swimming with the stream , and philosophical divines with the same turn , seeking to give a sort of grand stamp of generality and solemnity to this antipathy of the Nonconformists , and to dress it out as a law of human ...
... turn for swimming with the stream , and philosophical divines with the same turn , seeking to give a sort of grand stamp of generality and solemnity to this antipathy of the Nonconformists , and to dress it out as a law of human ...
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... turn for small fault - finding , love of selfish ease , and indecision in action . The man of culture is in politics one of the poorest mortals alive . For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal . No assumption is ...
... turn for small fault - finding , love of selfish ease , and indecision in action . The man of culture is in politics one of the poorest mortals alive . For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal . No assumption is ...
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... : " To make reason and the will of God prevail ! " Only , whereas the passion for doing good is apt to be overhasty in determining what reason and the will of God say , because its turn is for 1. ] SWEETNESS AND LIGHT .
... : " To make reason and the will of God prevail ! " Only , whereas the passion for doing good is apt to be overhasty in determining what reason and the will of God say , because its turn is for 1. ] SWEETNESS AND LIGHT .
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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...