 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 - Page 771854Full view - About this book
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1853 - 456 pages
...§ 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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | India - 1855 - 864 pages
...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 - Conduct of life - 1856 - 330 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English essays - 1866 - 374 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...§ 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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