Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social CriticismSmith, Elder, & Company, 1875 - 239 Seiten |
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... aristocracy , and the secret of its distinguished manners and dignity , these very qualities , in an epoch of ex- pansion , turn against their possessors . Again and again I have said how the refinement of an aristocracy may be precious ...
... aristocracy , and the secret of its distinguished manners and dignity , these very qualities , in an epoch of ex- pansion , turn against their possessors . Again and again I have said how the refinement of an aristocracy may be precious ...
Seite 65
... aristocratic class , when the whim takes him to sing the praises of wealth and material comfort , sing them with a cynicism from which the conscience of the veriest Philistine of our industrial middle class would recoil in affright ...
... aristocratic class , when the whim takes him to sing the praises of wealth and material comfort , sing them with a cynicism from which the conscience of the veriest Philistine of our industrial middle class would recoil in affright ...
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... aristocracy's de- feat ; for it is trying to do violence to nature instead of working along with it . The best powers shown by the best men of an aristocracy at such an epoch are , it will be observed , non - aristocratical powers ...
... aristocracy's de- feat ; for it is trying to do violence to nature instead of working along with it . The best powers shown by the best men of an aristocracy at such an epoch are , it will be observed , non - aristocratical powers ...
Seite 67
... aristocracy , that the lord was exactly the perfection , or happy mean , or virtue , of aristocracy , and the baronet the excess . And I fancied that by observing these two we might see both the inadequacy of aris- tocracy to supply the ...
... aristocracy , that the lord was exactly the perfection , or happy mean , or virtue , of aristocracy , and the baronet the excess . And I fancied that by observing these two we might see both the inadequacy of aris- tocracy to supply the ...
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... aristocracy , its impenetrability , defiant courage , and pride of resistance , were developed even in excess , was manifestly capable , if he had his way given him , of causing us great danger , and , indeed , of throwing the whole ...
... aristocracy , its impenetrability , defiant courage , and pride of resistance , were developed even in excess , was manifestly capable , if he had his way given him , of causing us great danger , and , indeed , of throwing the whole ...
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