 | George Eliot - 1885 - 392 páginas
...thoughts about those who condemn us, even though we might have expected a somewhat different verdict. From the majority of persons, of course, we never...Levity and pride would not be a sufficient basis for that. Pardon me if, in vindicating myself from some unjust conclusions, I seem too cold and self-asserting.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 384 páginas
...thoughts about those who condemn us, even though we might hare expected a somewhat different verdict. From the majority of persons, of course, we never...Levity and pride would not be a sufficient basis for that. Pardon me if, in vindicating myself from some unjust conclusions, I seem too cold and self-asserting.... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1885 - 362 páginas
...only understand by remembering how subtle and complex are the influences that mould opinion. * * * We are leading no life of self-indulgence, except,...to fulfil every responsibility that lies upon us." Lewes and she led a busy life, always hard at work, not only to support themselves, but to take care... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 396 páginas
...thoughts about those who condemn us, even though we might have expected a somewhat different verdict. From the majority of persons, of course, we never...self-indulgence, except, indeed, that, being happy in I each other, we find everything easy. We are working hard to provide for others better than we provide... | |
 | 1885 - 932 páginas
...she writes to Mrs. Bray, " are what I neither desire theoretically, nor could live for practically ; we are working hard to provide for others better than...and to fulfil every responsibility that lies upon us " (vol. i. pp. 327-8). And to Mrs. Peter Taylor she writes, in 1861 : " For the last six years I have... | |
 | 1885 - 846 páginas
...she writes to Mrs. Bray, "are what I neither desire theoretically, nor could live for practically ; we are working hard to provide for others better than...to fulfil every responsibility that lies upon us" (vol. i., pp. 327-8). And to Mrs. Peter Taylor she writes, in 1861 : " For the last six years I have... | |
 | 1885 - 858 páginas
...she writes to Mrs. Bray, "are what 1 neither desire theoretically, nor could live for practically; we are working hard to provide for others better than...and to fulfil every responsibility that lies upon us " (vol. i., pp. 327-8). And to Mrs. Peter Taylor she writes, in 1861 : " For the last six years I have... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 540 páginas
...thoughts about those who condemn us, even though we might have expected a somewhat different verdict. From the majority of persons, of course, we never looked for anything 1 but condemnation. We are leading no life of self| indulgence, except indeed that, being happy in... | |
 | Charles Gordon Ames - 1886 - 36 páginas
...herself, the tremendous step she took." Certainly she counted the cost. She writes to Mrs. Bray : " From the majority of persons, of course we never looked for anything but condemnation." Her own theory of marriage itself — legalities aside — was so lofty and spiritual that on this... | |
 | William Henry Thorne - 1886 - 194 páginas
...thoughts about those who condemn us, even though we might have expected a somewhat different verdict. From the majority of persons, of course, we never...Levity and pride would not be a sufficient basis for that. Pardon me if, in vindicating myself from some unjust conclusions, I seem too cold and self-asserting.... | |
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I can only understand by remembering how subtle and complex are the influences that mould opinion. But I do remember this: and I indulge in no arrogant or uncharitable thoughts about those who condemn us, even though we might have expected a somewhat... 
