 ... 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.  Felix Holt, the Radical - Page 59by George Eliot - 1871 - 529 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 368 pages
...public matters, and this history is chiefly concerned with the private lot of a few men and women ; bitt there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public lifej from the time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with the wanderings of her clan, because... | |
 | Bibliography - 1960 - 612 pages
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 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1882 - 1050 pages
...markets by all the various calamities of war, pestilence, aud drought. George Eliot wisely writes : "There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life," and by way of illustration adds, — "from the time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with the... | |
 | Jane Hume Clapperton - 1885 - 468 pages
...morals, is a sure step upon the path that leads to that distant goal. CHAPTER IV. DEVELOPMENT IN MORALS. "There is no private life which has not been determined...time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with ihe wanderings of her clan, because the cow she milked was one of a herd which had made the pastures... | |
 | Home economics - 1888 - 654 pages
...creature who became, in turn, all that their foster parents could desire. If, as George Eliot says, " There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life," it is also true that the larger life of society is made up of innumerable units. If it be the object... | |
 | George Eliot - 1907 - 372 pages
...changes in Treby parish are comparatively public matters, and this history is chiefly concerned [ 69 1 with the private lot of a few men and women; but there...life, from the time when the primeval milkmaid had tp wander with the wanderings of her clan because the cow she milked was one of a herd which had made... | |
 | George Eliot - England - 1913 - 364 pages
...a good tangible reason could be urged against them ; while some regarded it as the most neighbourly thing to hold a little with both sides, and were not...wander with the wanderings of her clan, because the cow jshe milked was one of a herd which had made the pastures bare. Even in that conservatory existence... | |
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