 ... 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 this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions...  Emerson, Poet and Thinker - Page 96by Elisabeth Luther Cary - 1904 - 284 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 350 pages
...getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning...our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 354 pages
...getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning...thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we how follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1869 - 838 pages
...softening the austerities of Judaism by the refinements of Greece, and thus enlarging its narrowness by " turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits." Or rather we should say that it is only by the touch of the divinely human Master and Lord of Christianity,... | |
 | 1869 - 838 pages
...softening the austerities of Judaism by the refinements of Greece, and thus enlarging its narrowness by " turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits." Or rather we should say that it is only by the touch of the divinely human Master and Lord of Christianity,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1869 - 912 pages
...austerities of Judaism by the re£r;>> inents of Greece, and thus enlarging its narrowness by " tnrnini: a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits." Or rather we should say that it is only by the touch of the divinely human Master and Lord of Christianity,... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1870 - 304 pages
...softening the austerities of Judaism by the refinements of Greece, and thus enlarging its narrowness by " turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits." Or rather we should say that it is only by the touch of the divinely human Master and Lord of Christianity,... | |
 | 1871
...getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning...upon our stock notions and habits which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly, which... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - 1877 - 364 pages
...getting to know, in all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning...and free thought upon our stock notions and habits." i He is a little more precise when he speaks of culture as leading us " to conceive of true human perfection... | |
 | William Unsworth - 1879 - 186 pages
...of getting to know, on all matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning...stanchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is virtue in following them stanchly which makes up for following them mechanically.' No doubt human society,... | |
 | 1883 - 492 pages
...though each has an important share in promoting the higher life of man. which has been thought and said in the world, and, through this knowledge, turning...our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly, but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which... | |
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