 Arnold tells us that the meaning of culture is "to know the best that has been thought and said in the world." It is the criticism of life contained in literature. That criticism regards " Europe as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes, one...  The North British Review - Page 1641865Full view - About this book
 | Literature - 1913 - 878 pages
...Matthew Arnold beheld such a vision. "Let us," he said, "conceive of the whole group of civilized nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes,...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... | |
 | American essays - 1902 - 902 pages
...criticism which alone can much help ns for the future," wrote Mr. Arnold in his luciferous manner, " is a criticism which regards Europe as being, for...to a joint action and working to a common result." It is the hope of attaining such constructive thought as this, which, in a day when the artfully phrased... | |
 | 1865 - 1022 pages
...But, after all, the criticism I am really concerned with, — the criticism which alone can help ns for the future, the criticism which throughout Europe,...spiritual purposes, one great confederation, bound to n joint action and working to a common result; and whose members have, for their proper outfit, a knowledge... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1879 - 362 pages
...that 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,...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... | |
 | Art - 1879 - 616 pages
...that few things are less vain than real glory. Let us conceive of the whole group of civilized nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes,...confederation, bound to a joint action and working toward a common result ; a confederation whose members have a due knowledge both of the past, out of... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1887 - 626 pages
...ideal of a true and grand civilization : — " Let us conceive of the whole group of civilized nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes,...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... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1879 - 390 pages
...that 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,...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... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1913 - 1216 pages
...from the same proposition. " Let us," he says,1 " conceive of the whole group of civilized nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes,...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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1879 - 562 pages
...that 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,...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1879 - 834 pages
...that few things are less vain than real glory. Let us conceive of the whole group of civilized nations as being, for intellectual and spiritual purposes,...confederation, bound to a joint action and working toward a common result ; a confederation whose members have a due knowledge both of the past, out of... | |
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