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" Well, then, what an unsound habit of mind it must be which makes us talk of things like coal or iron as constituting the greatness of England, and how salutary a friend is culture, bent on seeing things as they are, and thus dissipating delusions of this... "
Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism - Page 19
by Matthew Arnold - 1869 - 272 pages
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 16; Volume 20

George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1867 - 802 pages
...greatness of England, and how salutary a friend is culture, bent on seeing things as they are and on fixing standards of perfection that are real ! Wealth,...most give their lives and thoughts to becoming rich, arc just the very people whom we call the Philistines. Culture says : " Consider these people, then,...
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Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism : And ...

Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1883 - 420 pages
...effort, but when our coal, and our industrial operations depending on coal, were very little developed 1 Well, then, what an unsound habit of mind it must...becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call Philistines. Culture says : " Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners,...
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Prose masterpieces from modern essayists [ed. by G.H.P.

Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 348 pages
...apt thus to regard it as they are in England at the present time. Never did people believe any thing more firmly, than nine Englishmen out of ten at the...becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call Philistines. Culture says : " Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners,...
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Representative Essays

George Haven Putnam - English essays - 1885 - 480 pages
...bad. In the same way the Times, replying to some foreign strictures on the dress, looks, and behavior of the English abroad, urges that the English ideal...becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call Philistines. Culture says : " Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners,...
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Representative Essays: Selected from the Series of "Prose Masterpieces from ...

George Haven Putnam - English essays - 1885 - 424 pages
...of perfection, to regard wealth as but machinery, and not only to say as a matter of words that \ve regard wealth as but machinery, but really to perceive...becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call Philistines. Culture says : "Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners,...
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Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism : And ...

Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1891 - 438 pages
...worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration ; and the niitwnrd proof nf pnnnpnning greatnessjs that we excite love, interest, and admiration. If...becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call Philistines. Culture says : " Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners,...
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Culture & Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism ; and ...

Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1894 - 420 pages
...; if our coal runs short, there is an end of the greatness of England. But what is greatness 1 — culture makes us ask. Greatness is a spiritual condition...becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call Philistines. Culture says : " Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners,...
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Sweetness and Light

Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1896 - 56 pages
...that we excite love, interest, and admiration. If England were swallowed up by the sea to- . morrow, which of the two, a hundred years hence, would most...becoming rich, are just the very people whom we call Philistines. Culture says : " Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners,...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 460 pages
...so. If it were not for this purging effect wrought upon our minds by culture, the whole world, the 25 future as well as the present, would inevitably belong...thoughts to becoming rich, are just the very people whom attentively ; observe the literature they read, the things which give them pleasure, the words which...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 464 pages
...so. If it were not for this purging effect wrought upon our minds by culture, the whole world, the 25 future as well as the present, would inevitably belong...greatness and welfare are proved by our being very rich, andwho most give their lives and thoughts . / to becoming" rich, are just" ~TMe very people whom 30...
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