His faith wavered, but not his speech : it is the lot of every man who has to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, that ho must often speak in virtue of yesterday's •faith, hoping it will come back tomorrow. Romola - Page 226by George Eliot - 1863 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...Slow- j ly at first, then faster and faster, that fatal demand had been swelling in Savonarola's ear, j provoking a response, outwardly in the declaration...has to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, that ho must often speak in virtue of yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back to-morrow. It was in preparation... | |
| 1863 - 830 pages
...teacher of men must pretend that his own faith is firm, or he will not confirm that of his hearers. " It is the lot of every man who has to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, that he must speak in virtue of yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back to-morrow" (chap. Ixii.); just as George... | |
| George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...and an interdict on their city, there inevitably came the question, " What miracle showcst thon ? " Slowly at first, then faster and faster, that fatal...has to speak for the satisfaction of the crowd, that ho must often speak in virtue of yesterday's •faith, hoping it will come back tomorrow. It was in... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...a mixed condition of things which is the sign, not of hopeless confusion, but of struggling order. It is the lot of every man who has to speak for the...yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back to-morrow. — o — The repentance which cuts off all moorings to evil, demands something more than selfish fear.... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...a mixed condition of things which is the sign, not of hopeless confusion, but of struggling order. It is the lot of every man who has to speak for the...yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back to-morrow. — o — The repentance which cuts off all moorings to evil, demands something more than selfish fear.... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...apt to be timid and sceptical towards the larger aims without which life cannot rise into religion. It is the lot of every man who has to speak for the...in virtue of yesterday's faith, hoping it will come hack to-morrow. There are moments when our passions speak ami decide for us, and we seem to stand by... | |
| 1899 - 948 pages
...waning influence and after the ban of excommunication had been laid upon him, George Eliot says, " His faith wavered, but not his speech ; it is the...yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back to-morrow." The prophetreformer was confronted with crowds who desired a sign, and had ventured to assure them... | |
| Algernon Cecil - Literary Criticism - 1909 - 328 pages
...pulpit in the Piazza, of San Marco and asked a sign to reassure the expectant, anxious people beneath : "His faith wavered but not his speech : it is the...yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back to-morrow." Yet for all this the mortal sickness of Newman's " Anglicanism " was prolonged over four years. Weaker... | |
| William Dudley Foulke - Fiction - 1912 - 282 pages
...moral tradition for the race, and to have acted nobly seems a reason why we should always be noble." " It is the lot of every man who has to speak for the...yesterday's faith, hoping it will come back to-morrow." Moralizing of this kind is apt to become tiresome in an ordinary writer, but George Eliot's mind, like... | |
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