| George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...the only girl in the civilized world of that day who had come out j of her school-life with a soul untrained ' for inevitable struggles, — with no...false history, — with much futile information about S:ixon and other kings of doubtful example, — but unhappily quite without that knowledge of the irreversible... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...been the only girl in the civilized world of that day who had come out of her school-life with a soul untrained for inevitable struggles — with no other...feeble literature and false history — with much futilt information about Saxon and other kings of doubtful example — but unhappily quite without... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - Literary Criticism - 1898 - 340 pages
...untrained for inevitable struggles." Owing to the stereotyped inanity of her education, she had no share in the hardwon treasures of thought which generations...of painful toil have laid up for the race of men. Her intellectual outfit, like that of thousands, consisted only of shreds and patches of feeble literature... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - Literary Criticism - 1898 - 256 pages
...struggles." Owing to the stereotyped inanity of her education, she had no share in the hard-won treasures 01 thought which generations of painful toil have laid up for the race of men. Her intellectual outfit, like that of thousands, consisted only of shreds and patches of feeble literature... | |
| George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - English prose literature - 1904 - 508 pages
...been the only girl in the civilised world of that day who had come out of her school-life with a soul untrained for inevitable struggles — with no other...Saxon and other kings of doubtful example — but happily quite without that knowledge of the irreversible laws within and without her, which, governing... | |
| George Eliot - 1908 - 422 pages
...been the only girl in the civilized world of that day who had come out of her school-life with a soul untrained for inevitable struggles — with no other...information about Saxon and other kings of doubtful example—but unhappily quite without that knowledge of the irreversible laws within and without her,... | |
| 1913 - 594 pages
...only girl in the civilized world which had come out of her school-life with a soul untrained for the inevitable struggles with no other part of her inherited share in the hard won treasures of men than shreds and patches of feeble literature and false history, with much... | |
| George Eliot - Fiction - 1914 - 600 pages
...the only girl 15 in the civilized world of that day who had come out of her schoollife with a soul untrained for inevitable struggles, with no other...and patches of feeble literature and false history, 20 with much futile information about Saxon and other kings of doubtful example, but unhappily quite... | |
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