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... human ear . The poets have told us of a dolorous enchanted forest in the under world . The thorn - bushes there , and the thick- barked stems , have human histories hidden in them ; the power of unuttered cries dwells in the passionless ...
... human ear . The poets have told us of a dolorous enchanted forest in the under world . The thorn - bushes there , and the thick- barked stems , have human histories hidden in them ; the power of unuttered cries dwells in the passionless ...
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... human specimen that doesn't grow here in England , I fancy . I should have been badly off if I could not have brought Dominic . " They sat down to breakfast with such slight talk as this going on . Each of the party was preoccupied and ...
... human specimen that doesn't grow here in England , I fancy . I should have been badly off if I could not have brought Dominic . " They sat down to breakfast with such slight talk as this going on . Each of the party was preoccupied and ...
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... human system , nor the way in which drugs counteract each other . Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug , but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm . I know something about these things . I was ' prentice for five ...
... human system , nor the way in which drugs counteract each other . Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug , but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm . I know something about these things . I was ' prentice for five ...
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... parson who was what a parson ought to be , so the good Dissenter sometimes mixed his approval of ministerial gifts with considerable criticism 1 and cheapening of the human vessel which contained those 76 FELIX HOLT ,
... parson who was what a parson ought to be , so the good Dissenter sometimes mixed his approval of ministerial gifts with considerable criticism 1 and cheapening of the human vessel which contained those 76 FELIX HOLT ,
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George Eliot. 1 and cheapening of the human vessel which contained those treasures . Mrs. Muscat and Mrs. Nuttwood applied the principle of Christian equality by remarking that Mr. Lyon had his oddities , and that he ought not to allow ...
George Eliot. 1 and cheapening of the human vessel which contained those treasures . Mrs. Muscat and Mrs. Nuttwood applied the principle of Christian equality by remarking that Mr. Lyon had his oddities , and that he ought not to allow ...
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Page 251 - What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap'd For truth to over-peer, — Rather than fool it so, Let the high office and the honour go To one that would do thus.
Page 146 - I say the truth in Christ; I lie not, (my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,) that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 358 - ... good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 66 - For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool : for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
Page 146 - Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises : whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 301 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore — Thy touch upon the palm. The widest land Doom takes to part us, leaves thy heart in mine With pulses that beat double. What I do And what I dream include thee, as the wine Must taste of its own grapes. And when I sue God for myself,...
Page 448 - A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darknesg It is not true that love makes all things easy ; it makes us choose what is difficult.
Page 280 - His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder.
Page 50 - ... there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life, from the time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with the wanderings of her clan, because the cow she milked was one of a herd which had made the pastures bare.
Page 182 - For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities — a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces — a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.