The Sewanee Review, Volume 23University of the South, 1915 |
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... things in general , which gives some basis in fact for that tremendous phrase , " spirit of the age , " to rest upon . Thirty years ago , for example , in the days of Matthew Arnold , the educated world was a good deal interested in ...
... things in general , which gives some basis in fact for that tremendous phrase , " spirit of the age , " to rest upon . Thirty years ago , for example , in the days of Matthew Arnold , the educated world was a good deal interested in ...
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... things im- portant for the world's attention . Apparently we no longer talk very much or very seriously about culture now . Doubtless Chautauqua lecturers , or some of them , still consider it a good thing for everybody to get a bit of ...
... things im- portant for the world's attention . Apparently we no longer talk very much or very seriously about culture now . Doubtless Chautauqua lecturers , or some of them , still consider it a good thing for everybody to get a bit of ...
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... thing . Probably no one , how- ever , who is likely so much as to glance at an article about cul- ture , needs to be told that to deny the reality of a thing because the word which does its poor best to name that thing is not de ...
... thing . Probably no one , how- ever , who is likely so much as to glance at an article about cul- ture , needs to be told that to deny the reality of a thing because the word which does its poor best to name that thing is not de ...
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... thing , when it has meant anything at all beyond a vague discontent . That is to say , if every time that cry has ... things never be successful ; and that not merely be- cause the material to be worked upon is obdurate , but far more ...
... thing , when it has meant anything at all beyond a vague discontent . That is to say , if every time that cry has ... things never be successful ; and that not merely be- cause the material to be worked upon is obdurate , but far more ...
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... things we say and do , and putting an utterly exaggerated estimate upon their own rather pitiful accomplishments in similar directions ; and they will make themselves ridiculous in the future as they have done in the past , parading ...
... things we say and do , and putting an utterly exaggerated estimate upon their own rather pitiful accomplishments in similar directions ; and they will make themselves ridiculous in the future as they have done in the past , parading ...
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