Harrison wants to be doing business, and he complains that the man of culture stops him with a "turn for small faultfinding, love of selfish ease, and indecision in action." Of what use is culture, he asks, except for " a critic of new books or a professor... The Cornhill Magazine - Seite 52herausgegeben von - 1867Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1867 - 818 Seiten
...consideration of circumstances, its severe judgment of actions joined to its merciful judgment of persons. " The man of culture is in politics," cries Mr. Frederic...Frederic Harrison wants to be doing business, and he complain:? that the man of culture stops him with a " turn for small fault-finding, love of selfish... | |
| Irving P. Fox - 1908 - 726 Seiten
...culture described by John Bright as " a smattering of two dead languages of Greek and Latin" nor the turn for "small fault-finding, love of selfish ease and indecision in action" sneered at by Frederick Harrison but that genuine craving for the best in motive and in action which... | |
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