 Some of you may possibly remember a phrase of mine which has been the object of a good deal of comment ; an observation to the effect that in our culture, the aim being to know ourselves and tlie world, we have, as the means to this end, to know the best...  Discourses in America - Page 82by Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1905 - 880 pages
...solidity and value on whether he reads during that day, and, far more still, on what he reads during it." "To know the best which has been thought and said in the world" is here seen to have been his life-long study. If we would discover the mainspring of all his... | |
 | 1882 - 1050 pages
...comment ; an observation to the effect that in our culture, the aim being to know ourselves and the world, we have, as the means to this end, to know the best which has been thought and said in the world. Professor Huxley, in his discourse at the opening of Sir Josiah Mason's college, laying hold... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 920 pages
...comment ; an observation to the effect that in our culture, the aim being to know ourselves and the world, we have, as the means to this end, to know the best which has been thought and said in the world. Professor Huxley, in his discourse at the opening of Sir Josiah Mason's college, laying hold... | |
 | 1882 - 884 pages
...comment ; an observation to the effect that in our culture, the aim being to know ourselves and the world, we have> as the means to this end, to know the best which has been thought and said in the world. Professor Huxley, in his discourse at the opening of Sir Josiah Mason's college, laying hold... | |
 | 1882 - 922 pages
...comment ; an observation to the effect that in our culture, the aim being to know ourselves and the world, we have, as the means to this end, to know the best which has been thought and said in the world. Professor Huxley, in his discourse at the opening of Sir Josiah Mason's college, laying hold... | |
 | 1899 - 482 pages
...familiar precept bequeathed by a wise man, " the aim being to know ourselves and the world, we have, as a means to this end, to know the best which has been thought and said in the world." Under this one may dare set illegally in codicil the suggestion that to learn and to discuss... | |
 | 1882 - 900 pages
...comment ; an observation to the effect that in our culture, the aim being to know ourselves and the world, we have, as the means to this end, to know the best which has heen thought and said in the world. Professor Huxley, in his discourse at the opening of Sir Josiah... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 460 pages
...comment ; an observation to the effect that in our .culture, the aim being to know ourselves and the world, we have, as the means to this end, to know...which has been thought and said in the world. A man of 20 science, who is also an excellent writer and the very prince of debaters, Professor Huxley, in a... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 464 pages
...'comment ; an observation to the effect that in our (culture, the aim being to know ourselves and the world, we have, as the means to this end, to know the best wliichjias been thought and said in the world. A man of 20 science, who is also an excellent writer... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 456 pages
...aim being to know_ourselves and the world, I we have, as the means to this end, to Jtnow the best ^ I which has been thought and said in the world. A man of ao • science, who is also an excellent writer and the very prince of debaters, Professor Huxley,... | |
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