 There was a moment's pause. Then Savonarola said, with keener emotion than he had yet shown — "Be thankful, my daughter, if your own soul has been spared perplexity; and judge not those to whom a harder lot has been given. You see one ground of action...  Romola - Page 211by George Eliot - 1863 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...was a moment's pause. Then Savonarola said, with keener emotion than he had yet shown, "Be thankful, my daughter, if your own soul has been spared perplexity,...I have to choose that which will further the work intrusted to me. The end I seek is one to which minor respects must be sacrificed. The death of five... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...Savonarola said, with keener emotion than he had yet shown : — " Be thankful, my daughter, if yonr own soul has been spared perplexity ; and judge not...given. You see one ground of action in this matter. I sec many. I have to choose that which will further the work intrusted to me. The end I seek is one... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 464 pages
...moment's pause. Then Savonarola said, with keener emotion than he had yet shown — " Be thankful, my daughter, if your own soul has been spared perplexity...matter. I see many. I have to choose that which will farther the work intrusted to me. The end I seek is one to which minor respects must be sacrificed.... | |
 | George Eliot - Florence (Italy) - 1883 - 696 pages
...moment's pause. Then Savonarola said, with keener emotion than he had yet shown — " Be thankful, my daughter, if your own soul has been spared perplexity...I have to choose that which will further the work intrusted to me. The end I seek is one to which minor respects must be sacrificed. The death of five... | |
 | George Eliot - Florence (Italy) - 1889 - 712 pages
...a moment's pause. Then Savonarola said, with keener emotion than he had yet shown — "Be thankful, my daughter, if your own soul has been spared perplexity;...I have to choose that which will further the work intrusted to me. The end I seek is one to which minor respects must be sacrificed. The death of five... | |
 | Prosper Mérimée, Elisabeth Balch - 1889 - 368 pages
...find at the moment : — " Savonarola said, with keener emotion than he had yet shown, ' Be thankful, my daughter, if your own soul has been spared perplexity...judge not those to whom a harder lot has been given.' . . . ' I do not believe ! ' said Romola, her whole frame shaken with passionate repugnance. ' God's... | |
 | Quotations - 1897 - 184 pages
...ye do whatsoever I command you. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. SHAKESPEARE. Be thankful if your own soul has been spared perplexity, and judge not those to whom a harder lot has been given. GEORGE ELIOT. By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own. ZENO. " 'Fliction is... | |
 | Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane - 1927 - 344 pages
...with him, then at the height of his power, for her godfather Bernardo's life, he said : "Be thankful, my daughter, if your own soul has been spared perplexity,...that which will further the work entrusted to me." To Romola this was heresy : there was but one road of lightness and that was to save the lives that... | |
 | I. N. Kuhn - Papacy - 1927 - 592 pages
...Rome. Not to please God, but to secure temporal power for the church on earth. As Savonarola said : "I have to choose that which will further the work...which minor respects must be sacrificed." The death of even noble men, of innocent men, was, in the esteem of the devout Romanist, a light matter when weighed... | |
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