 | 1881 - 868 pàgines
...acquaintance ; seeing that on the highest topics, as also on those most immediately practical, it gives us " the best that has been known and said in the world," and the truest and completest "history of the human spirit.'" Significantly coincident with this, even... | |
 | 1883 - 802 pàgines
...questions, is calm, liberal, and inclined towards democracy, but he has always asserted that in culture " the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world" is the remedy for the evils of nmgovernment, ecclesiastical and social. So distinctly has the advocacy... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1883 - 320 pàgines
...something that can be verified, instead of something which has to be assumed." " The want of culture or acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit," The cause ot is, he thinks, the cause of this extraordinary misunder- misunderstanding of the Bible... | |
 | 1906 - 1158 pàgines
...fearlessly assumes, is not a quality permitting of definition, but Arnold's famous phrase defining it as "the acquainting ourselves with the best that has...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit," obviously would cover the ground for him, as the defect he finds in our schools and universities is... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1888 - 584 pàgines
...zealously and properly working them for all that they are worth. J. c. r Culture is the acquainting of ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world. — Matthew Arnold. LITERARY NOTES. Robert Browning is said to be writing a book of Reminiscences.... | |
 | John Vance Cheney - 1891 - 312 pàgines
...which — made with special reference to Biblical criticism, but serving equally well elsewhere — is " the acquainting ourselves with the best that...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit; which turns out to be, in another shape, and, in particular relation to the Bible, — getting the... | |
 | Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1915 - 792 pàgines
...followers it was made into a shibboleth. " Culture," wrote Matthew Arnold in his " Literature and Dogma," " is the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world." In fact, Arnold availed himself of the well-known rhetorical form called " hyperbole " and created... | |
 | John Henry Barrows - 1893 - 850 pàgines
...as a means of general ; second, as a means of religious culture. Matthew Arnold defines culture as " the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit." This is a nineteenth-century use of the word. The Romans would have used instead " humanitas," or,... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1893 - 1072 pàgines
...medieval Europe, and we may well thank Mr. Arnold for a new word suited to the new times: Culture — acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world and thus with the history of the human spirit. This will require us to know a great body of literature; but when we inquire for the beet we shall... | |
 | John Henry Barrows - 1893 - 838 pàgines
...mediaeval Europe, and we may well thank Mr. Arnold for a new word suited to the new times, Culture— acquainting ourselves with the best that has been...world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. This will require us to know a great bodv of literature ; but when we inquire for the best we shall... | |
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the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. 
