 ... the maintenance of that doubt and hope and effort which are the breath of its life, that if the whole future were laid bare to us beyond to-day, the interest of all mankind would be bent on the hours that lie between; we should pant after the uncertainties...  Scenes of clerical life. The lifted veil - Page 293by George Eliot - 1908Full view - About this book
 | England - 1859 - 826 pages
...that lie between ; we should pant after the uncertainties of our one morning and our one afternoon ; we should rush fiercely to the Exchange for our last...foretelling a crisis or a no-crisis within the only twenty-funr hours left open to prophecy. Conceive, the condition of the human mind if all propositions... | |
 | Scotland - 1859 - 1036 pages
...one morning and our one afternoon ; we should rush fiercely to the Exchange for our last possihility of speculation, of success, of disappointment; we...foretelling a crisis or a no-crisis within the only twenty four hours left open to prophecy. Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions... | |
 | Anders Fryxell - Sweden - 1866
...that lie between; we should pant after the uncertainties of our one morning and our one afternoon; we should rush fiercely to the Exchange for our last...speculation, of success, of disappointment; we should ha ve a glut of political prophets foretelling a crisis or a no-crisis within the only twenty-four... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 252 pages
...that lie between ; we should pant after the uncertainties of our one morning and our one afternoon; we should rush fiercely to the Exchange for our last...prophecy. Conceive the condition of the human mind if all pro6* positions whatsoever were self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the close... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 742 pages
...that lie between ; we should pant after the uncertainties of our one morning and our one afternoon ; we should rush fiercely to the Exchange for our last...condition of the human mind if all propositions whatsoever wete self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the c^se of a summer's day, but in... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Novelists, English - 1883 - 454 pages
...that He between ; we should pant after the uncertainties of our one morning and our one afternoon ; we should rush fiercely to the exchange for our last...prophets foretelling a crisis or a no-crisis within tho. only twenty-four hours left open to prophecy. Conceive the condition of the human mind if all... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1883 - 470 pages
...that lie between ; we should pant after the uncertainties of our one morning and our one afternoon ; we should rush fiercely to the exchange for our last...glut of political prophets foretelling a crisis or a uo-crisis within the only twenty-four hours left open to prophecy. Conceive the condition of the human... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 140 pages
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 | George Eliot - 1885 - 422 pages
...that lie between ; we should pant after the uncertainties of our one morning and our one afternoon ; we should rush fiercely to the Exchange for our last possibility of speculation, of snccess, of disappointment ; we should- have a glnt of political prophets foretelling a crisis or a... | |
 | George Eliot - 1902 - 568 pages
...that lie between ; we should pant after the uncertainties of our one morning and our one afternoon ; we should rush fiercely to the Exchange for our last...foretelling a crisis or a nocrisis within the only twenty -four hours left open to prophecy. Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions... | |
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