 ... the way water would act. Now, all the schemes about voting, and districts, and annual Parliaments, and the rest, are engines, and the water or steam — the force that is to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings,...  Felix Holt: The Radical - Page 328by George Eliot - 1866 - 529 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 446 pages
...to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do good work or bad depends on these...very much of that sort." " That's very fine," said a man in dirty fustian, with a scornful laugh. " But how are we to get the power without votes?" "... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1868 - 548 pages
...to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do good work or bad depends on these...very much of that sort." " That's very fine," said a man in dirty fustian, with a scornful laugh. " But how are we to get the power without votes?" "... | |
 | George Eliot - 1869 - 568 pages
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 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do good work or bad depends on these...characters, we are very much like the idiot who thinks he '11 carry milk in a can without a bottom. In my opinion, the notions about what mere voting will... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do good work or bad depends on these...characters, we are very much like the idiot who thinks he '11 carry milk in a can without a bottom. In my opinion, the notions about what mere voting will... | |
 | George Eliot - Novelists, English - 1878 - 378 pages
...to work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. Whether the engines will do good work or bad depends on these...very much of that sort." "That's very fine," said a man in dirty fustian, with a scornful laugh. " But how are we to get tho power without votes ? "... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - 426 pages
...work them — must come out of human nature — out of men's passions, feelings, desires. i. Whether the engines will do good work or bad, depends on these...mere voting will do, are very much of that sort.' ' That 's very fine,' said a man in dirty fustian, with a scornful laugh. 'But how are we to get the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 802 pages
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