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Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker - Page 108
by Claudia Franken - 2000 - 393 pages
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Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism

Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 350 pages
...the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being 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...
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Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism

Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 354 pages
...the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being 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...
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The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate, Volume 71

1871
...difficulties, whether speculative or practical, the one sovereign remedy of culture, and he describes this as " 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...
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The United States as a Nation: Lectures on the Centennial of American ...

Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 362 pages
...preaches culture as the new gospel for humanity, defines his theme with tantalizing vagueness : it is " a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, in all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world, and,...
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Self-culture and Self-reliance, Under God the Means of Self-elevation

William Unsworth - Religious education - 1879 - 186 pages
...the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting...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...
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Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism : And ...

Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1883 - 420 pages
...essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our pre- ] sent difficulties ; culture being 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...
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Science, Volume 56

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1923 - 812 pages
...unintelligence. Fifty years ago Matthew Arnold described education as "the getting to know on all matters which 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...
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Science, Volume 56

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1922 - 796 pages
...unintelligence. Fifty years ago Matthew Arnold described education as "the getting to know on all matters which 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...
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Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism ; and ...

Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1894 - 420 pages
...the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties ; culture being 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...
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The Dial, Volume 18

Literature - 1895 - 376 pages
...reach — a well .filled set of book-shelves. Having this, we have, however socially isolated, the " means of getting to know, on all matters which most...us, the best which has been thought and said in the world." One is almost ashamed to make so hackneyed a phrase do duty once more, but Matthew Arnold seized...
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