 ... civilization. This change, however, is not to be deplored, but welcomed as highly beneficial. It is well, nay, essential, for the progress of the race that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest and best in literature and the arts,...  Soldiers of Fortune - Page 246by Richard Harding Davis - 2006 - 272 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | 1891 - 844 pages
...but weleomed as highly beneficial. It is well, nay essential for the progress of the race, that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest...universal squalor. Without wealth there can be no Maecenas. The " good old times" were not good old times. Neither master nor servant was as well situated... | |
 | 1901 - 1160 pages
...civilisation. " It is well, nay, essential," says Mr Carnegie, "for the progress of the race that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest and best in literature and the arts. . . . Without wealth there can be no Msecenas. The 'good old times' were not good old times." It would... | |
 | 1901 - 886 pages
...civilization. "It is well, nay, essential," says Mr. Carnegie, "for the progress of the race that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest and best in literature and the arts. . . . Without wealth there can be no Maecenas. The 'good old times' were not good old times." It would... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - 1901 - 340 pages
...welcomed as highly beneficial. \ It is well, nay, essenI tial, for the progress of the race that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest and best in literature and the ai*ts, and for all the refinements of civilization, rather than that none should be so. ! Much better... | |
 | Charles Whibley - 1902 - 344 pages
...civilisation. " It Mxcenas *s we^» nav, essential," says Mr Carnegie, "for the progress of the race that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest and best in literature and the arts. . . . Without wealth there can be no Maecenas. The 'good old times' were not good old times." It would... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1925 - 1154 pages
...welcomed as highly beneficial. It is well— nay, essential — for the progress of the race that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest...universal squalor. Without wealth there can be no Maecenas. The "good old times" were not good old times. Neither master nor servant was as well situated... | |
 | Martha Rainbolt, Janet Fleetwood - 1983 - 370 pages
...but welcomed as highly beneficial. It is well, nay, essential, for the progress of the race that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest...universal squalor. Without wealth there can be no Maecenas. * The "good old times" were not good old times. Neither master nor servant was as well situated... | |
 | Nell Irvin Painter - 1989 - 458 pages
...measured the advance of civilization: "It is well, nay, essential, for the progress of the race that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest...literature and the arts, and for all the refinements of civilization."29 In the late 18805 and early 1890s conservatives like Andrew Carnegie and William McKinley... | |
 | Russell W. Belk - 1995 - 204 pages
...wealth, Andrew Carnegie suggested that: It is well, nay, essential for the progress of the race, that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest...better this great irregularity than universal squalor. (Carnegie 1889, p. 653) With the exception of the fine art and literature they might preserve, Carnegie... | |
 | Max L. Stackhouse, Dennis P. McCann, Preston N. Williams, Shirley J. Roels - 1995 - 1002 pages
...but welcomed as highly beneficiaL It is well, nay, essential, for the progress of the race that the houses of some should be homes for all that is highest...better this great irregularity than universal squalor. . . . The "good old times" were not good old times. Neither master nor servant was as well situated... | |
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