...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...less intimate pressures on the individual, for - in one of George Eliot's most quoted statements - 'there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life'.1 Every character has an occupation or public persona which affects all aspects of his life....

...--. Hange is represented primarily in terms of mental development.28 The often-quoted statement that "there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life" (Ch. 3, I, 72) does not capture all the forms of relation between individual and society dramatised...

...the challenge of his environment through integrity of character. Private and public life interact. 'There is no private life, which has not been determined by a wider public life.'23 There is no public life which can blossom out unless it has deep roots. The career of Lydgate...

...of the inevitable circumstantiality of living - the recognition, as she put it in Felix Holt, that "there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life." In an essay of the mid-1860s she suggests that if superstition has waned in recent centuries, it is...

...Eliot's narrator announces the attempt to "understand ourselves," in Woolf's words, in political context: "This history is chiefly concerned with the private...which has not been determined by a wider public life" (FH 129). The Years likewise concerns a few representative lives formed by historical change — a...