... a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world... Scribner's Magazine - Page 111edited by - 1901Full view - About this book
| Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 354 pages
...the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 350 pages
...the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through... | |
| 1871
...difficulties, whether speculative or practical, the one sovereign remedy of culture, and he describes this as " a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through... | |
| Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 362 pages
...preaches culture as the new gospel for humanity, defines his theme with tantalizing vagueness : it is " a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, in all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and,... | |
| William Unsworth - 1879 - 186 pages
...the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting...matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 420 pages
...essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our pre- ] sent difficulties ; culture being a pursuit of our total / perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1894 - 420 pages
...the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world ; and through... | |
| 1895 - 376 pages
...reach — a well .filled set of book-shelves. Having this, we have, however socially isolated, the " means of getting to know, on all matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world." One is almost ashamed to make so hackneyed a phrase do duty once more,... | |
| William Basil Worsfold - 1897 - 308 pages
...Anarchy is ' to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting...know, on all matters which most concern us, the best that has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh... | |
| William Basil Worsfold - 1897 - 310 pages
...Anarchy is ' to recommend culture as y the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being n. pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting...know, on all matters which most concern us, the best that has been thought and said in the world ; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh... | |
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