The Works of Matthew Arnold in Fifteen Volumes, Volume 11AMS Press, 1970 |
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Page 81
... important . Other and greater functions devolve upon this class than of old ; but its defective civilisation makes it unfit to discharge them . It comes to the new time and to its new duties , it comes to them , as its flatterers will ...
... important . Other and greater functions devolve upon this class than of old ; but its defective civilisation makes it unfit to discharge them . It comes to the new time and to its new duties , it comes to them , as its flatterers will ...
Page 215
... importance . He was important to us , ' answered M. Sainte - Beuve . In a far higher degree can a Frenchman say of Corneille and Racine : They were important to us . ' Voltaire pronounces of them : These men taught our nation to think ...
... importance . He was important to us , ' answered M. Sainte - Beuve . In a far higher degree can a Frenchman say of Corneille and Racine : They were important to us . ' Voltaire pronounces of them : These men taught our nation to think ...
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... important period of our literary and intellectual history , through means of the lives of six of its leading and representative authors , told by a great man . I should like to think that they would go on , under the stimulus of the ...
... important period of our literary and intellectual history , through means of the lives of six of its leading and representative authors , told by a great man . I should like to think that they would go on , under the stimulus of the ...
Contents
AN UNREGARDED IRISH GRIEVANCE | 79 |
ECCE CONVERTIMUR AD GENTES | 104 |
THE FUTURE OF LIBERALISM | 134 |
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