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" Slowly at first, then faster and faster, that fatal demand had been swelling in Savonarola's ear, provoking a response, outwardly in the declaration that at the fitting time the miracle would come ; inwardly in the faith — not unwavering, for what faith... "
Romola - Page 320
by George Eliot - 1909
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Romola, by George Eliot

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...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 27

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1863 - 882 pages
...; inwardly in the faith — not unwavering, for what faith is so? — that if the need for miraele became urgent, the work he had before him was too...it is the lot of every man who has to speak for the satisfaetion of the crowd, that ho must often speak in virtue of yesterday's faith, hoping it will...
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The Home and foreign review [formerly The Rambler]., Volume 2

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...
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Novels [of George Eliot], Volume 2

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...
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Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works ...

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....
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Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse,: Selected from the Works ...

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....
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Works, Volume 20

George Eliot - 1884 - 464 pages
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Wit & Wisdom

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...
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The Puritan: An Illustrated Magazine for Free Churchmen, Volumes 1-2

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...
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Six Oxford Thinkers: Edward Gibbon. John Henry Newman. R.W. Church. James ...

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...
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