 But the modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection compatible with their nature.  The North British Review - Página 771854Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Ruskin - 1853 - 456 páginas
...§ XI. But the modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection...brute animals would be preferable to man, because more perfect in their functions and kind, and yet are always held inferior to him, so also in the works... | |
 | 1853 - 1042 páginas
...hand : — 'The modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires in all things the utmost completion or perfection...in the abstract, but becomes ignoble when it causes iis to forget the relative dignities of that nature itself, and to prefer the perfectness of the lower... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1854 - 104 páginas
...whole. But the modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection...brute animals would be preferable to man, because more perfect in their functions and kind, and yet are always held inferior to him, so also in the works... | |
 | 1855 - 864 páginas
...whole. " But the modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection...brute animals would be preferable to man, because more perfect in their functions and kind, and yet are always held inferior to him, so also in the works... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 páginas
...whole. But the modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection...rule, all the brute animals would be preferable to men, because more perfect in their functions and kind, and yet are always held inferior to him, so... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 páginas
...COMMENDABLE. The modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection...brute animals would be preferable to man, because more perfect in their functions and kind, and yet are always held inferior to him, so also in the works... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1865 - 502 páginas
...PERFECTION. The modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection...brute animals would be preferable to man, because more perfect in their functions and kind, and yet are always held inferior to him, so also in the works... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 páginas
...PERFECTION. The modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection...brute animals would be preferable to man, because more perfect in their functions and kind, and yet are always held inferior to him, so also in the works... | |
 | Penny readings - 1867 - 270 páginas
...periodicals.] THE modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection...brute animals would be preferable to man, because more perfect in their functions and kind, and yet are always held inferior to him, so also in the works... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1867 - 458 páginas
...§ xi. But the modern English mind has this much in common with that of the Greek, that it intensely desires, in all things, the utmost completion or perfection...dignities of that nature itself, and to prefer the perfect!) ess of the lower nature to the imperfection of the higher ; not considering that as, judged... | |
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