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" ... after him. The German, despising the frivolity of the Frenchman, and the unphilosophic matter-of-factness of the Englishman, retires to his study, there to construct the Idea of a Camel from out of the depths of his Moral Consciousness. "
The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and Contemporaries ... - Page 205
by George Henry Lewes - 1856
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ..., Volume 23

New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...which adds to the general knowledge. He is perfectly satisfied, however, and says, Behold the camel ! The Englishman packs up his tea-caddy, and a magazine...from out of the depths of his moral consciousness." . In these papers I have nothing whatever to do with man as he ought to be : the ideal man is not now...
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The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and ..., Volume 2

George Henry Lewes - 1855 - 482 pages
...the Jardin des Plantes, spends an hour there in rapid investigation, returns, and writes &feuilleton, in which there is no phrase the Academy can blame,...of his Moral Consciousness. And he is still at it. Philosophical Criticism, and which has been exercised upon Wilhelm Meister almost as mercilessly as...
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The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and ..., Volume 2

George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 506 pages
...there is no phrase the Academy can blame, but also no phrase which adds to the general knowledge. Fie is perfectly satisfied, however, and says, Le voild,...Philosophical Criticism, and which has been exercised upon Willielm Meister almost as mercilessly as VOL. II. 18 upon Faust, but which reaches the depth of absurdity...
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The Life and Works of Goethe: With Sketches of His Age and ..., Volume 2

George Henry Lewes - 1856 - 628 pages
...phrase which adds to the general knowledge. He is perfectly satisfied, however, and says, Le voila, le chameau ! The Englishman packs up his teacaddy...exercised upon Wilhelm Meister almost as mercilessly as voi. ii. 18 upon Faust, but which reaches the depth of absurdity when it treats of Shakespeare. There...
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The Life of Goethe, Volumes 1-2

George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 678 pages
...the frivolity of the Frenchman, and the unphilosophic matter-of-factness of the Englishman, retired to his study, there to construct the Idea of a Camel...Philosophical Criticism, and which has been exercised upon Wilhehn Meister almost as mercilessly as upon Faust. My readers, it is hoped, will not generalise this...
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The Life of Goethe, Volume 1

George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 620 pages
...the frivolity of the Frenchman, and the unphilosophic matter-of-factness of the Englishman, retired to his study, there to construct the Idea of a Camel...it. With this myth the reader is introduced into the veiy heart of that species of criticism which, nourishing in Germany, is also admired in some English...
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The Life of Goethe, Volume 1

George Henry Lewes - 1864 - 616 pages
...the frivolity of the Frenchman, and the unphilosophic inatter-of-factness of the Englishman, retired to his study, there to construct the Idea of a Camel from out of the depths of his Moral Conseiousness. And he is still at it. With this myth the reader is introduced into the very heart of...
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Cakes, Leeks, Puddings and Potatoes: A Lecture on the Nationalities of the ...

George Seton - English - 1865 - 52 pages
...all who come after him. The German, despising the frivolity of the Frenchman, and the unphilosophical matter-of-factness of the Englishman, retires to his...of his moral consciousness. And he is still at it.' In making a few remarks on the more prominent characteristics of the component parts of the United...
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First Public Examination in Literis Graecis Et Latinis

University of Oxford - Greek language - 1879 - 414 pages
...the frivolity of the Frenchman, and the unphilosophic matterof-factness of the Englishman, retired to his study, there to construct the Idea of a Camel...of his Moral Consciousness. And he is still at it. 2. Give the derivation of the following words : — metier, me"dire, appas, kyrielle, kiosque, parole,...
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A Short History of German Literature

James Kendall Hosmer - German literature - 1879 - 660 pages
...Frenchman, and the unphilosophic mattcr-of-factncss of the Englishman, retired to his study, there to evolve the idea of a camel from out of the depths of his moral consciousness." The story represents amusingly the tendency of the Germans to idealism. Schiller certainly would have...
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