Religious and Moral Ideas in the Novels of George EliotUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963 - 398 pages |
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Page 121
... Mill on the Floss wants to push ahead in life . As a preacher , his main aim is to create an impression , to produce a sensation rather than to elevate the congregation . He is not attached to any particular doctrine and if he is ...
... Mill on the Floss wants to push ahead in life . As a preacher , his main aim is to create an impression , to produce a sensation rather than to elevate the congregation . He is not attached to any particular doctrine and if he is ...
Page 161
... Mill on the Floss she tells us that English national life is fairly dreary and sordid . It consists of men and women who have known nothing else except arduous labor , want and family discord . Under such circumstances , she wrote ...
... Mill on the Floss she tells us that English national life is fairly dreary and sordid . It consists of men and women who have known nothing else except arduous labor , want and family discord . Under such circumstances , she wrote ...
Page 165
... Mill on the Floss : All people of broad , strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims ; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims and that to lace ...
... Mill on the Floss : All people of broad , strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims ; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims and that to lace ...
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accept according action Adam Bede admiration affections Arthur attempt authority Barton become begins belief Book Bray brought called Chapter character Christianity Church Comte concept concern consequences course criticism Daniel Deronda deeds divine doctrines dogma early emotions essay ethics Evangelical existence experience expression face fact faith feelings Felix Holt felt finds force George Eliot give hand heart Hennell hopes human ideas individual influence intellectual kind leads letter lives London looked man's means mind Miss moral nature never novels one's passionate perfect philosophy position present question reading religion religious responsibility Review Romola says seems sense shows social sometimes soul Spinoza spirit story Strauss struggle suffering suggests sympathy teaching tells things thought tried true truth turned universe Westminster Review whole writes wrote