 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 Seiten
...anything more firmly than nine Eng-| lishmen out of ten at the present day believe that our greatness y and welfare are proved by our being so very rich....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,... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - 1904 - 470 Seiten
...found it, he turned the convenient term to excellent purpose in all his later literary writings. ' ' The people who believe most that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being rich, and who most give their lives and thoughts to becoming rich," he writes in Culture and Anarchy,... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - 1904 - 552 Seiten
...found it, he turned the convenient term to excellent purpose in all his later literary writings. " The people who believe most that our greatness and welfare are proved by our being rich, and who most give their lives and thoughts to becoming rich," he writes in Culture and Anarchy,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 578 Seiten
...gainsayers. Mr. Roebuck is never weary of reiterating this argument of his, so I do not know why 1 should be weary of noticing it. "May not every man...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,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 574 Seiten
...being so very rich. Now, the use of culture is that it helps us, by means of its spiritual standard ot perfection, to regard wealth as but machinery, and...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,... | |
 | Edwin Campbell Woolley - 1909 - 492 Seiten
...unless what men say, when they say what they like, is worth saying. Eight (quotation not narrated) : The people who believe most that our greatness and...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,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1910 - 422 Seiten
...effort, but when our coal, and our industrial operations depending on coal, were very little developed 1 Well, then, what an unsound habit of mind it must...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,... | |
 | Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - 1910 - 502 Seiten
...belong to the Philistines. The people who believe most that our greatness and welfare are proved 5 by our being very rich, and who most give their lives...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,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1911 - 458 Seiten
...''Wealth, again, that end to which our prodigious works for material advantage are directed,—the commonest of commonplaces tells us how men are always...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,... | |
 | Paul Heyse - 1911 - 148 Seiten
...a matter-of-fact, commonplace person; one who is satisfied and unaware of his own lack of culture. "The people who believe most that our greatness and...lives and thoughts to becoming rich, are just the very persons whom we call Philistines." — M. ARNOLD, Sweetness and Light. 22. Stratcittnfd: Island of... | |
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Well, then, what an unsound habit of mind it must be which makes us talk of things like coal or iron as constituting the greatness of England, and how salutary a friend is culture, bent on seeing things as they are, and thus dissipating delusions of this... 
