 For as there is a curiosity about intellectual matters which is futile, and merely a disease, so there is certainly a curiosity, — a desire after the things of the mind simply for their own sakes and for the pleasure of seeing them as they are, —...  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 38edited by - 1867Full view - About this book
 | 1867
...there is certainly a curiosity, — a desire for the things of the mind simply for their own sukes and for the pleasure of seeing them as they are, —...which is not often attained without fruitful effort, nnd which is the very opposite of the blind and diseased impulse of mind which is what we mean to blame... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 354 pages
...matters which is futile, and merely a disease, so there is certainly a curiosity, — a desire after the things of the mind simply for their own sakes...things as they are implies a balance and regulation ^T~immd -wrriclTTs not ofte"n attained without fruitful effort, and which isftEe very opposite o.fjthe... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 460 pages
...so there is certainly a curiosity, — a desire after the things of the mind simply for their own 15 sakes and for the pleasure of seeing them as they...is not often attained without fruitful effort, and 20 which is the very opposite of the blind and diseased . impulse of mind which is what we mean to... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 464 pages
...of the mind simply for their own i; ) sakes and for the pleasure of seeing them as they i are,1 — which is, in an intelligent being, natural and laudable....is not often attained without fruitful effort, and 2t whf'-.h is the very opposite of the blind and diseased impulse of mind which is what we mean to... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1897 - 604 pages
...the sad defect. Then "culture is a desire after the things of the mind simply for their own sake?, and for the pleasure of seeing them as they are, —...is, in an intelligent being, natural and laudable." And this very desire implies a balance and regulation of mind which is not often attained without fruitful... | |
 | American fiction - 1899 - 544 pages
...understood, perhaps, from the following extracts from " Sweetness and Light:" Culture is "a desire after the things of the mind simply for their own sakes and for the pleasure of seeing them as they are." "Culture is a harmonious expansion of all the powers which make the beauty and worth of human nature."... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 466 pages
...merely a disease, so there is certainly a curiosity, — a desire after the things of the mind simpTy. for their own sakes and for the pleasure of seeing them as they j.re, — which is, in an intelligent being, natural and laudable. Nay, and the very desire to see... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - Authorship - 1903 - 136 pages
...matters which is futile, and merely a disease, so there is certainly a curiosity, — a desire after the things of the mind simply for their own sakes and for tne pleasure of seeing them ae they are, — which is, in an intelligent being, natural and laudable.... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - Poets, English - 1904 - 350 pages
...chapter Arnold lays it down that Culture, as he understands the word, is, in part, " a desire after the things of the mind, simply for their own sakes,...and for the pleasure of seeing them as they are." But he goes on to say that " there is of Culture another view, in which not solely the scientific passion,... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - 1904 - 332 pages
...chapter Arnold lays it down that Culture, as he understands the word, is, in part, " a desire after the things of the mind, simply for their own sakes,...and for the pleasure of seeing them as they are." But he goes on to say that " there is of Culture another view, in which not solely the scientific passion,... | |
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