 | George Eliot - Florence (Italy) - 1863 - 326 pages
...before him as a tempting game, had been slowly strangled in him by the successive falsities of his life. Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual...makes a moral tradition for the race; and to have once acted greatly seems a reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the effect of... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...before him as a tempting game, had been slowly strangled in him by the successive falsities of his life. Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual...makes a moral tradition for the race ; and to have once acted greatly seems to make a reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the effect... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...Tito's inability to resist the infamous temptation, and ends the matter with a couple of sentences : " Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual...makes a moral tradition for the race ; and to have once acted greatly seems a reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the effect of... | |
 | Literature - 1866 - 802 pages
...Tito's inability to resist the infamous temptation, and ends the matter with a couple of sentences : " Our lives make " a moral tradition for our individual...makes a moral tradition for the race ; " and to have onco acted greatly seems " a reason why we should always be " noble. But Tito was feeling the effect... | |
 | 1866 - 506 pages
...Tito's inability to resist the infamous temptation, and ends the matter with a couple of sentences : " Our lives make " a moral tradition for our individual...makes a moral tradition for the race ; " and to have once acted greatly seems " a reason why we should always be " noble. But Tito was feeling the effect... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 566 pages
...writer. He selects the following " specimen reflection " as especially marvellous : — " Our lives mako a moral tradition for our individual selves, as the...makes a moral tradition for the race, and to have once acted greatly seems a reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the ettect of... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...before him as a tempting game, had been slowly strangled in him by the successive falsities of his life. Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual...makes a moral tradition for the race ; and to have once acted greatly seems a reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the effect of... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...be defeated at every turn by airblown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistledown. — o — Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual...makes a moral tradition for the race ; and to have once acted greatly seems a reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the effect of... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...liable to be defeated at every turn by airblown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistledown. Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual...makes a moral tradition for the race ; and to have once acted greatly seems a reason why we should always be noble. \ But Tito was feeling the effect... | |
 | Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 512 pages
...spoil a great writer. He selects the following " specimen reflection" as especially marvellous : — " Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual...makes a moral tradition for the race, and to have once acted greatly seems a reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the effect of... | |
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Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual selves, as the life of mankind at large makes a moral tradition for the race; and to have once acted greatly seems a reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the effect of an opposite... 
