Crewe's peculiarities of enunciation. And even elderly fathers and mothers, with minds, like Mrs. Linnet's, too tough to imbibe much doctrine, were the better for having their hearts inclined towards the new preacher as a messenger from God. They became... Scenes of clerical life. The lifted veil - Page 113by George Eliot - 1908Full view - About this book
| Scotland - 1857 - 922 pages
...found evangelical channels for vanity and egoism : but she was clearly in moral advance of Miss Pliipps giggling under her feathers at old Mr Crewe's peculiarities...reverence. And this latter precious gift was brought to Millby by Mr Tryau and Evangelicalism. Yes, the movement was good, though it had that mixture of folly... | |
| Arminianism - 1881 - 1046 pages
...selfish appetites — however those fiends of evil counsel may mask themselves as spirits of light. ' The first condition of human goodness is something to love ; the second, something to reverence.' "Wise and true is the saying ; but its utterer nowhere clearly indicates a supreme Object for this... | |
| American periodicals - 1857 - 850 pages
...model than the costumes of the heroines in the emulating library. Miss Eliza Pratt, listening in wrapt attention to Mr. Tryan's evening lecture, no doubt...something to love ; the second, something to reverence. Arid this latter precious • gift was brought to Millby by Mr. Tryan and Evangelicanism. Yes, the... | |
| Scotland - 1857 - 992 pages
...worldliness, ashamed of their trivial, futile past The firet condition of human goodness is Бошеthing to love ; the second, something to reverence. And this latter precious gift was brought to Mill by by Mr. Tryan and Evangelicalism. Yes, the movement was good, though it had that mixture of... | |
| George Eliot - English fiction - 1858 - 196 pages
...model than the costumes of the heromes in the circulating library. Miss Eliza Pratt, listening in wrapt attention to Mr. Tryan's evening lecture, no doubt...reverence. And this latter precious gift was brought to Millby by Mr. Tryan and Evangelicanism. Yes, the movement was good, though it had that mixture of folly... | |
| English literature - 1866 - 566 pages
...messenger from God. They became ashamed, perhaps, of their evil tempers, ashamed of their worldiness, ashamed of their trivial, futile past. The first condition...brought to Milby by Mr. Tryan and Evangelicalism." This knowledge of the various forms of religious feeling to be found in the heart of man, and this... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love. The first condition of human goodness is something to love ; the second, something to reverence. It is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often... | |
| John Daniel Morell - Oral reading - 1874 - 336 pages
...bottom, and is lost for ever.2 3. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.3 4. The first condition of human goodness is something to love ; the second something to reverence. 5. The best fire does not blaze up the soonest. 6. However strong a man's resolution may be, it costs... | |
| ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...healing to some wounded heart, or a word of strength to some weary brain. It has been well said, " The first condition of human goodness is, something to love; the second, something to reverence:" both these conditions meet, and meet grandly, in the Life of Doctor Samuel Johnson. THE END. ... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - 356 pages
...peculiarities of enunciation. And even elderly fathers and mothers, with minds, like Mrs. Liunet's, too tough to imbibe much doctrine, were the better...this latter precious gift was brought to Milby by Mr. Tryun and Evangelicalism. Yes, the movement was good, though it had that mixture of folly and evil... | |
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