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" Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual selves as the life of mankind at large makes a moral tradition for the race; and to have once acted nobly seems a reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the effect of an opposite... "
Romola : in Two Volumes - Page 55
by George Eliot - 1863
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Romola, by George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...a reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the effect of an opposite tradition j he had won no memories of self-conquest and perfect...all events it was agreed that there had been enough gravity, and Rucellai had just ordered new flasks of Montepulciano. " How many minstrels are there...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 4; Volume 67

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...Tito's inability to resist the infamous temptation, and ends the matter with a couple of sentences : " Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual...faithfulness from which he could have a sense of falling." A stupid or lazy reader passes by a pregnant sentence of this sort with a slight persuasion that it...
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The North British Review, Volumes 44-45

English literature - 1866 - 566 pages
...have once acted greatly seems a reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the ettect of an opposite tradition : he had won no memories...faithfulness from which he could have a sense of falling." Beside this may be placed the following in the same style : — " And it has been well believed through...
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Novels [of George Eliot], Volume 2

George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the effect of an opposite tradition : he hud won no memories of self-conquest and perfect faithfulness...went on with growing spirit till it was interrupted )>ya call irom tho table. Probably the movement came from the listeners in the party, who were afraid...
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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
...be defeated at every turn by airblown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistledown. — o — Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual...faithfulness from which he could have a sense of falling. It is not force of intellect which causes ready repulsion from the aberration and eccentricities of...
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Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse,: Selected from the Works ...

George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...liable to be defeated at every turn by airblown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistledown. Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual...faithfulness from which he could have a sense of falling. It is not force of intellect which causes ready repulsion from the aberration and eccentricities of...
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Essays and Reviews

Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 512 pages
...spoil a great writer. He selects the following " specimen reflection" as especially marvellous : — "Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual...faithfulness from which he could have a sense of falling." Beside this may be placed the following in the same style : — " And it has been well believed through...
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Essays and Reviews

Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 510 pages
...as especially marvellous :— 2 B " Our lives make a moral tradition for our individual selves,.as the life of mankind at large makes a moral tradition...faithfulness from which he could have a sense of falling." Beside this may be placed the following in the same style:— " And it has been well believed through...
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Essays and Reviews

Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 512 pages
...reason why we should always be noble. But Tito was feeling the effect of an opposite tradition : ho had won no memories of self-conquest and perfect faithfulness from which he could have a sense of falling." Beside this may be placed the following in the same style : — " And it has been well believed through...
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The Works of George Eliot: Romola

George Eliot - 1878 - 464 pages
...as the life of mankind at large makes a moral tradition for the race ; and to have once acted nobly seems a reason why we should always be noble. But...was agreed that there had been enough of gravity, and Eucellai had just ordered new flasks of Montepulciano. " How many minstrels are there among us...
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