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Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse,: Selected from the Works ... - Page 211
by George Eliot - 1875 - 417 pages
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Romola, by George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves ; and...from pain by its being what we would choose before every thing else, because our souls see it is good. There are so many things wrong and difficult in...
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About in the world, essays, by the author of 'The gentle life'.

James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling with the rest of the world, as well as ourselves ; and this...it, that we can only tell it from pain by its being that we would choose before everything else, because our souls see it is good. There are so many things...
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About in the World: Essays by the Author of "The Gentle Life".

James Hain Friswell - Conduct of life - 1864 - 376 pages
...happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling with the rest of the world, as well as ourselves ; and this...it, that we can only tell it from pain by its being that we would choose before everything else, because our souls see it is good. There are so many things...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 14

Literature - 1866 - 802 pages
..." great man, by having wide thoughts " and much feeling for the rest of the " world, as well as for ourselves ; and " this sort of happiness often brings...much pain with it, that we can only " tell it from misery by its being what " we would choose before . everything " else, because our souls see it is...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 4; Volume 67

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world, as well as for ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings...much pain with it, that we can only tell . it from misery by its being what we would choose before everything else, because our souls see it is good....
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 14

1866 - 506 pages
...having wide thoughts " and much feeling for the rest of the " world, as well as for ourselves ; anil " this sort of happiness often brings so " much pain with it, that we can only " tell it from misery by its being what " wo would choose before everything " else, because our souls see it is good....
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 18

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1868 - 570 pages
...ness, and such as goes along with " being a great man, by having wide " thoughts, and much feeling for the " rest of the world as well as ourselves ;...from pain by its being " what we would choose before every " thing else, because our souls see it is " good." And compare the speech of Savonarola, in which...
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Novels [of George Eliot], Volume 2

George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and ! much feeling tor the rest of the world as well as ourselves ; and this...with it, that we can only tell it from pain by its lieing what we would choose before everything else, because our souls see it is good. There are so...
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The Living Age, Volume 115

1872 - 894 pages
...highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves ; and...everything else, because our souls see it is good.'' The same doctrine of the necessity of self-renunciation, of the obligation laid upon men to accept...
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review and Quarterly Record of Christian ...

Theology - 1874 - 832 pages
...being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as for ourselves; and this sort of happiness often brings...everything else, because our souls see it is good." The accusation brought against our doctrine can only be made good, we see, by raising all human joys...
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