 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 - Strana 771854Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | John Ruskin - 1853 - Počet stránok 456
...§ 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 - Počet stránok 1042
...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 - Počet stránok 104
...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 - Počet stránok 864
...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 - Počet stránok 330
...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 - Počet stránok 592
...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 - Počet stránok 502
...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 - Počet stránok 374
...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 - Počet stránok 270
...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 - Počet stránok 458
...§ 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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