10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIEWINESS»
Discover the use of
viewiness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
viewiness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
When it came to viewiness, Frank had no peer. Indeed, asthe Oxford English
Dictionary attests, Newman coined the word “viewiness”in his Discourses on the
Scope and Nature of University Education (1852) tocapture Frank's “spurious ...
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A Theology of Higher Education
The formation that a university should provide is, in its way, countercultural—
albeit in a deeply conservative sense.38 Newman explains what he has in mind
by drawing a contrast between viewing and viewiness, where a well-formed mind
is ...
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Newman's Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint
familiar among the dons of Oriel between 'viewiness' and having a 'view'. '
Viewiness', according to this parlance, is to be 'impatient to reduce things to a
system'. A true view is gained by a process of development. Writing to a
correspondent in ...
Hence the rise and spread of this modern " viewiness" of ours. If we cannot get at
the origin of things, at fundamental truths, at one mighty systematic whole, at any
rate we can try to put a few things together, and patch up a system embracing ...
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The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign ...
Hence the rise and spread of this modern " viewiness" of ours. If we cannot get at
the origin of things, at fundamental truths, at one mighty systematic whole, at any
rate we can try to put a few things together, and patch up a system embracing ...
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Theology on the Way to Emmaus
... of meticulous research in favour of self-indulgent speculative synthesis: this, for
Newman, was 'viewiness'. But, between the poles of 'viewiness' and 'mere
learning' there stood the possibility, or at least the requirement, of 'taking a view'.
Nicholas Langrishe Alleym Lash, 2005
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Discourse and Context: An Interdisciplinary Study of John ...
There is a spurious knowledge he termed "viewiness" (Idea, p. xviii), which he
thought a chief evil of his day: "An intellectual man, as the world now conceives of
him, is one who is full of 'views' on all subjects . . . of the day. It is almost thought a
...
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The Contemporary Review
Viewiness, as it is sometimes termed, is a harmless tendency, and rather
laudable, in people in general, so long as they do not translate their views into
violent or obstinate perversity in action. Young people who have no inclination to
...
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Rhetorical Thought in John Henry Newman
sible degeneracies, from "viewiness" (Idea, 12) on the one hand, and narrowness
of vision on the other. "Viewiness" is the undisciplined, inconsistent, and often
merely "theoretical" attempt to contact the real, "a smattering of a hundred things"
...
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John Henry Newman: A Biography
... Charles Reding, is contrasted with his college friend Sheflield who is better
informed and better read, but more superficial. The difference is expressed by
Newman in his favourite distinction between 'view' and 'viewiness'. To have a
view is ...
