 ... a human being lies prostrate, thrown on the tender mercies of his fellow, — the moral relation of man to man is reduced to its utmost clearness and simplicity: bigotry cannot confuse it, theory cannot pervert it, passion, awed into quiescence, can...  Scenes of clerical life. The lifted veil - Page 208by George Eliot - 1908Full view - About this book
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1858 - 610 pages
...neither pollute nor perturb it. As we bend over the sick-bed, all the forces of our nature rush toward the channels of pity, of patience, and of love, and...and our clamorous selfish desires. This blessing of eerene freedom from the importunities of opinion lies in all simple direct acts of mercy, and is one... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1858 - 588 pages
...perturb it. As we bend over the sick-bed, all the forces of our nature rush toward the channels o! pity, of patience, and of love, and sweep down the...choking drift of our quarrels, our debates, our would-be wiedum, and our clamorous selfish desires This blessing of serene freedom from th< importunities of... | |
 | Art - 1881 - 692 pages
...neither pollute nor perturb it. As we bend over the sick-bed, all the forces of our nature rush toward the channels of pity, of patience, and of love, and...miserable, choking drift of our quarrels, our debates, our.wouldbe wisdom, and our clamorous, selfish desires. This blessing of serene freedom from the importunities... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Novelists, English - 1883 - 454 pages
...the want that can find no utternfoe beyond the feeble motion of the hand or beseeching glance 01 th? eye — these are offices that demand no self-questionings,...quarrels, our debates, our would-be wisdom, and our elamor, ous, selfish desires. This blessing of serene freedom from the importunities of opinion lies... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...find no utterance beyond the feeble motion of the hand or beseeching glance of the eye — these arc offices that demand no self-questionings, no casuistry,...freedom from the importunities of opinion lies in all siirple direct acts of mercy, and is one source of that sweet calm which is often felt by the watcher... | |
 | James Grant - 1885 - 388 pages
...forces of our nature rush towards the channels of pity, of patience, and of love, and sweep down the choking drift of our quarrels, our debates, our would-be wisdom, and our clamorous, selfish desires," Allan's life was for a time hovering in the balance, and Olive, as she sat by his pillow looking out... | |
 | George Eliot - 1886 - 626 pages
...neither pollute nor perturb it. As we bend over the sickbed, all the forces of our nature rush toward the channels of pity, of patience, and of love, and...quarrels, our debates, our would-be wisdom, and our clamerous selfish desires. This blessing of serene freedom from the importunities of opinion lies in... | |
 | Mrs. C. W. Earle - Cooking - 1897 - 406 pages
...of the hand, the beseeching glance of the eye — these are offices that demand no self-questioning, no casuistry, no assent to propositions, no weighing...would-be wisdom, and our clamorous, selfish desires.' If this picture is true, and every word of it comes home to me as a truth, then surely life as it is... | |
 | Mrs. C. W. Earle - Cooking, English - 1897 - 410 pages
...the four walls where the stir and glare of the world are shut out, and every voice is subdued—where a human being lies prostrate, thrown on the tender...would-be wisdom, and our clamorous, selfish desires.' If this picture is true, and every word of it comes home to me as a truth, then surely life as it is... | |
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