 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1885 - 972 pages
...cannot be too strongly accentuated. It might almost seem as though George Eliot felt this herself. " If I live five years longer, the positive result of...consisted in my not doing anything to shock others." We leave this unpleasant subject without further comment. The study of the 'religious views and character... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 540 pages
...a large as well as beautiful mind. It is in process of appearing in a third edition, and no wonder. If I live five years longer, the positive result of...no consequences that will make me repent the past. Do not misunderstand me, and suppose that I think myself heroic or great in any way. Far enough from... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 384 pages
...a large as well as beautiful mind. It is in process of appearing in a third edition, and no wonder. If I live five years longer the positive result of...consisted in my not doing anything to shock others, and I utter to can conceive no consequences that will make me reMiss Sara J Henneii, pent the past. Do not... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 396 pages
...a large as well as beautiful mind. It is in process of appearing in a third edition, and no wonder. If I live five years longer the positive result of...consisted in my not doing anything to shock others, and I 332 Mr. Tryan. [RICHMOND, Letter to can conceive no consequences that will make me reMiss Saia . Henneii,... | |
 | 1885 - 858 pages
...example. She almost says as much in her letter to Miss Hennell, in which she promises herself that "if I live five years longer, the positive result...consisted in my not doing anything to shock others " (vol. i., p. 461). And though she adds immediately, " I can conceive no consequences I hat can make... | |
 | 1885 - 932 pages
...example. She almost says as much in her letter to Miss Hennell, in which she promises herself that, " If I live five years longer, the positive result of...consisted in my not doing anything to shock others " (vol. ip 461). And though she adds immediately, " I can conceive no consequences that can make me... | |
 | 1885 - 846 pages
...example. She almost says as much in her letter to Miss Hennell, in which she promises herself that "if I live five years longer, the positive result...consisted in my not doing anything to shock others " (vol. i., p. 461). And though she adds immediately, " I can conceive no consequences I hat can make... | |
 | 1885 - 658 pages
...remarkable being in a letter to Miss Hennell in 1857, after the publication of Scenes in Clerical Life. ' If I live five years longer, the positive result of my existence on. \ i the side of truth and goodness will out- weigh the small negative good that would have consisted... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1887 - 310 pages
...sufficient basis for that. MARIAN EVANS [LEWES] : Letter to Mrs. Bray, 1855, in ' George Eliot's Life.' If I live five years longer the positive result of...no consequences that will make me repent the past. Do not misunderstand me, and suppose that I think myself heroic or great in any way. Far enough from... | |
 | Edmond Henri Adolphe Scherer - 1891 - 322 pages
...responsibility that lies upon us. Levity and pride would not be a sufficient basis for that. And later in 1857 : If I live five years longer, the positive result of...no consequences that will make me repent the past. Lord Acton, in a very remarkable article in the ' Nineteenth Century,' thinks that George Eliot was... | |
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If I live five years longer, the positive result of my existence on the side of truth and goodness will outweigh the small negative good that would have consisted in my not doing anything to shock others, and I can conceive no consequences that will make... 
