 It is not so, Stephen ; I'm quite sure that is wrong. I have tried to think it again and again ; but I see, if we judged in that way, there would be a warrant for all treachery and cruelty ; we should justify breaking the most sacred ties that can ever...  The Mill on the Floss - Pagina 222door George Eliot - 1860 - 993 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 628 pagina’s
...but I see, if we judged in that way, there would be a warrant for all treachery and cruelty — we should justify breaking the most sacred ties that...walking about again. " What is outward faithfulness i Would they have thanked us for anything so hollow as constancy without love?" Maggie did not answer... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1867 - 614 pagina’s
...I see, if we judged ' in that way, there would be a warrant for all treachery ' and cruelty — we should justify breaking the most sacred ties ' that...law but the ' inclination of the moment.' ' But,' said Stephen, ' there are ' ties that can't be kept by mere resolution. What is outward ' faithfulness... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pagina’s
...but I see, if we judged in that way, there would be a warrant for all treachery and cruelty, — we should justify breaking the most sacred ties that...ever be formed on earth. If the past is not to bind ns, where can duty lie ? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment." "But there are tics... | |
 | 1872 - 894 pagina’s
...again; but I see, if we judged in that way, there would be a warrant for all treachery and cruelty. We should justify breaking the most sacred ties that...If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie 'i We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.' " Maggie returns to St. Oggs : Fedalina... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pagina’s
...us — whatever would cause misery to those whom the course of our lives has made dependent on us. If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie...should have no law but the inclination of the moment. — o — I don't think I could ever bear to make any one unhappy ; and yet I often hate myself, because... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pagina’s
...us — whatever would cause misery to those whom the course of our lives has made dependent on us. ; If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie...should have no law but the inclination of the moment. — o — I don't think I could ever bear to make any one unhappy ; and yet I often hate myself, because... | |
 | Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 pagina’s
...for her own part has not been insensible to anything that was precious in the influence of Comte. " If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie ?" As the life of the race lying behind our individual life points out the direction in which alone... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1883 - 470 pagina’s
...purpose and law which is to guide it, she has concentrated into one question asked by Maggie Tulliver. If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie...should have no law but the inclination of the moment. Although this question is asked in regard to an indivictual's past, the answer to it holds quite as... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1883 - 454 pagina’s
...replies, — " If we judged in that way, there would be a warrant for all treachery and cruelty. We should justify breaking the most sacred ties that can ever be formed on earth." He then asks what is outward faithfulness and constancy without love. Maggie pleads the better spirit.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pagina’s
...us — whatever would cause misery to those whom the course of our lives has made dependent on us.* If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie?...should have no law but the inclination of the moment.* I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse... | |
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