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College Life, Its Conditions and Problems: A Selection of Essays for Use in ... - Page 96
edited by - 1914 - 524 pages
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 12

1882 - 1050 pages
...hold of this phrase, expanded it by quoting some more words of mine, which are these : — ' Europe is to be regarded as now being, for intellectual and...a common result ; and whose members have for their common outfit a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special local...
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The Place of English in the Higher Education

Robert Pickett Scott - 1883 - 72 pages
...England needs, to quote a great and living critic, that kind of criticism "which regards Europe as being for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...Roman and Eastern antiquity and of one another.'' Nor does the critic hesitate to pronounce upon the results to be attained by a national cultivation...
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Discourses in America, Issue 13

Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 pages
...hold of this phrase, expanded it by quoting some more words of mine, which are these : ' The civilised world is to be regarded as now being, for intellectual...Special local and temporary advantages being put out of account, that modern nation will in the intellectual and spiritual sphere make most progress, which...
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Select Works of Thomas H. Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 350 pages
...the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards " Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...common result ; and whose members have, for their common outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special, local,...
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Essays in Criticism: Second Series

Matthew Arnold - 1888 - 364 pages
...few things are less vain than real glory. Let us conceive of the whole group of civilised nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...confederation, bound to a joint action and working towards a common result ; a confederation whose members have a due knowledge both of the past, out...
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Essays in Criticism

Matthew Arnold - 1889 - 440 pages
...on the importance of criticism and the critical spirit, — is a criticism which regards Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge of Greek, Koman, and Eastern antiquity, and of one another. Special, local, and temporary advantages being put...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 33

1925 - 564 pages
...poetry and of the function of the Poet. Let us conceive of the whole group of civilized nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...confederation, bound to a joint action and working towards a common result; a confederation whose members have a due knowledge both of the past out of...
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Poems of Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1892 - 390 pages
...few things are less vain than real glory. Let us conceive of the whole group of civilised nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to a joint actionvand working towards a common result; a confederation whose members have a due knowledge both...
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Specimens of Exposition

Hammond Lamont - 1894 - 220 pages
...5 things are less vain than real glory. Let us conceive of the whole group of civilized nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...confederation, bound to a joint action and working towards a common result ; a confederation whose members have 10 a due knowledge both of the past, out...
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The Function of Criticism at the Present Time

Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 172 pages
...on the importance of criticism and the critical spirit, — is a criticism which regards Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...Special, local, and temporary advantages being put out of account, that modern nation will in the intellectual and spiritual sphere make most progress, which...
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