| Thomas Pearson - Skepticism - 1863 - 344 pages
...volume, taken a step in the right direction — a scheme which has Arnold's language for its motto, " I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects, written with a decidedly Christian tone." It has too much been forgotten that the people will have entertaining literature. It is by entertaining... | |
| Charles Knight - Booksellers and bookselling - 1864 - 352 pages
...That article is exactly a specimen of what I wished to see, but done far better than I could do it. I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects written with a decidedly Christian tone. History and Biography are far better vehicles of good, I think, than any direct comments on Scripture,... | |
| 1867 - 416 pages
...Diffusing Useful Knowledge. The particular aim he had is best defined by his sage remark, so often quoted, "I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...articles on common subjects written with a decidedly religious tone." In this endeavour to penetrate all character and work with the spirit of a living... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1867 - 614 pages
...and supply the ever-increasing demands of our households. Taking for its motto Dr. Arnold's words, ' I never wanted articles on ' religious subjects half...articles on common subjects written ' with a decidedly religious tone,' it endeavours by an agreeable miscellany of theology, essay, history, poetry, and... | |
| Emma Jane Worboise - 1870 - 426 pages
...that remark of his, so often quoted, and adopted by one monthly serial at least as its motto : — " I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...articles on common subjects written with a decidedly religious tone." These words were called forth by an article on Mirabeau, in the Penny Magazine of... | |
| Charles Knight - Publishers and publishing - 1874 - 508 pages
...That article is exactly a specimen of what I wished to see, but done far better than I could do it. I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects written with a decidedly Christian tone. History and Biography are far better vehicles of good, I think, than any direct comments on Scripture,... | |
| Charles Knight - Publishers and publishing - 1874 - 516 pages
...That article is exactly a specimen of what I wished to see, but done far better than I could do it. I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects written with a decidedly Christian tone. History and Biography are jar better vehicles of good, I think, than any direct comments on Scripture,... | |
| Gibson Craig - Biography - 1879 - 320 pages
...article is exactly a specimen of what I wished to see, but done far better than I could have done it. I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects, written with a decidedly Christian tone. History and biography are far better vehicles of good, I think, than any direct comments on Scripture,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 272 pages
...ends. Cheap, safe reading for the masses was a great desire with him. He once wrote to a friend, " I never wanted articles on religious subjects half...common subjects, written with a decidedly Christian tone." Stanley's life was greatly influenced by Arnold ; and nobly has he, at least, recognized a debt... | |
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