 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1868 - 796 pages
...capital. An unclouded clearness of mind, an unimpeded play of thought, is what this bent drives at. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. Christianity changed nothing in this essential bent of Hebraism to set doing... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1869 - 350 pages
...capital. An unclouded clearness of mind, an unimpeded play of thought, is what this bent drives at. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. Christianity changed nothing in this essential bent of Hebraism to set doing... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English prose literature - 1880 - 352 pages
...capital. An unclouded clearness of mind, an unimpeded play of thought, is what this bent drives at. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. — Culture and Anarchy, RENASCENCE AND REFORMATION. THE Renascence is, in... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1883 - 420 pages
...capital. An unclouded clearness of mind, an unimpeded play of thought, is what this bent drives at. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. Christianity changed nothing in this essential bent of Hebraism to set doing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - 324 pages
...capital. An unclouded clearness of mind, an unimpeded play of thought, is what this bent drives at. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. Christianity changed nothing in this essential bent of Hebraism to set doing... | |
 | Lyon Playfair Baron Playfair - University extension - 1894 - 212 pages
...tendency. We remember his definition, in Culture and Anarchy, of Hebraism as contrasted with Hellenism. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of...us see things as they are ; Hebraism insists rather upon conduct and obedience. In our own country the intellectual influence of the Eenaissance was crossed,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Culture - 1894 - 420 pages
...capital. An unclouded clearness of mind, an unimpeded play of thought, is what this bent drives at. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. Christianity changed nothing in this essential bent of Hebraism to set doing... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English essays - 1897 - 460 pages
...capital. An un- 25 clouded clearness of mind, an unimpeded play of thought, is what this bent drives at. The governing < idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. Christianity changed nothing in this essential bent of 30 Hebraism to set... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 466 pages
...capital. An unclouded clearness of mind, an unimpeded play of thought, is what this bent drives at. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness ;.. that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. Christianity changed nothing in this essential bent of Hebraism to set doing... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 426 pages
...capital. An unclouded clearness of mind, an unimpeded play of thought, is what this bent drives at. The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience. Christianity changed nothing in this essential bent of 10 Hebraism to set... | |
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... activity, the whole play of the universal order, to be apprehensive of missing any part of it, of sacrificing one part to another, to slip away from resting in this or that intimation of it, however capital. 
