 In this way it happened that Treby Magna gradually passed from being simply a respectable market-town — the heart of a great rural district, where the trade was only such as had close relations with the local landed interest — and took on the more...  Felix Holt: The Radical - Page 56by George Eliot - 1866 - 529 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 368 pages
...simply a respectable markettown — the heart of a great rural district, where the trade was only such as had close relations with the local landed interest...life brought by mines and manufactures, which belong Inore directly to the great circulating system of the nation than to the local system to which they... | |
 | George Eliot - 1905 - 728 pages
...simply a respectable markettown — -the heart of a great rural district, where the trade was only such as had close relations with the local landed interest — and took on the more complex life brought by milieu and manufactures^ which belong more directly to the great circulating system of the nation than... | |
 | George Eliot - 1907 - 372 pages
...simply a respectable market-town — the heart of a great rural district, where the trade was only such as had close relations with the local landed interest — and took on the more complex life brought by [ 65 ] mines and manufactures, which belong more directly to the great circulating system of the nation... | |
 | Isadore Gilbert Mudge, Minnie Earl Sears - 1924 - 318 pages
...simply a respectable market-town — the heart of a great rural district, where the trade was only such as had close relations with the local landed interest...more complex life brought by mines and manufactures." Ch. iii. Note. — It has been suggested that in the original of Treby Magna was the ancient town of... | |
 | Sally Shuttleworth - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 302 pages
...organic evolution from homogeneity to heterogeneity is imposed upon the static model. Thus Treby Magna "took on the more complex life brought by mines and...the local system to which they have been superadded" (Ch. 3, I, 68). The analogy is that employed by Spencer in his essay "The Social Organism" where he... | |
 | Aidan Cruttenden - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 104 pages
...simply a respectable market-town - the heart of a great rural district, where the trade was only such as had close relations with the local landed interest...the nation than to the local system to which they had been superadded...' The main events of Felix Holt take place between September 1832 and May 1833,... | |
 | James Buzard - Literary Criticism - 2009 - 336 pages
...transformation of "a respectable markettown [at] the heart of a great rural district" as it assumes "the more complex life brought by mines and manufactures,...local system to which they have been superadded," and comes "to know the higher pains of a dim political consciousness." 16 A slogan for this novel holds... | |
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