| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 Seiten
...on, saying that "there must be a systole and diastole in all inquiry," and that "a man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole...into the drawing-room, where Lydgate, having asked Rosamond to give them music, sank back in his chair in silence, but with bright dilated eyes. " He... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 Seiten
...the question. • — o — There must be a systole and diastole in all inquiry. A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole...human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass. What we call the 'just possible ' is sometimes true, and the thing we find it easier to believe is... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - 460 Seiten
...them out of the question. There must be a systole and diastole in all inquiry. A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole...human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass. — o — What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true, and the thing we find it easier to believe... | |
| 1877 - 938 Seiten
...intellectual attitude. "A man's mind," says the representative scientific man in Middkmarch, " must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole...human horizon and the horizon of an objectglass." Bentham's mind was continually performing a similar ; 'systole and diastole " ; and thus, in spite... | |
| George Eliot - 1878 - 484 Seiten
...saying that " there must be a systole and diastole in all inquiry," and that " a man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole...Eosamond to give them music, sank back in his chair in silenpe, but with a strange light in his eyes. " He may have been taking an opiate," was a thought... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 404 Seiten
...saying that 's there must be a systole and diastole in all inquiry," and that "a man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole...human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass." He was not an ill-tempered man ; his intellectual activity, the ardent kindness of his heart, as well... | |
| George Eliot - 1894 - 468 Seiten
...saying that " there must be a systole and diastole in all inquiry," and that "a man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole...into the drawing-room, where Lydgate, having asked Rosamond to give them music, sank back in his chair in silence, but with a strange light in his eyes.... | |
| Henry Sidgwick, Arthur Sidgwick - 1904 - 392 Seiten
...intellectual attitude. " A man's mind," says the representative scientific man in Middlemarch, " must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole...human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass." Bentham's mind was continually performing a similar " systole and diastole " ; and thus, in spite of... | |
| George Eliot - 1908 - 468 Seiten
...saying that " there must be a systole and diastole in all inquiry," and that "a man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole...into the drawing-room, where Lydgate, having asked Rosamond to give them music, sank back in his chair in silence, but with a strange light in his eyes.... | |
| George Eliot - 1908 - 464 Seiten
...on, saying that "there must be a systole and diastole in all inquiry," and that "a man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole...into the drawing-room, where Lydgate, having asked Rosamond to give them music, sank back in his chair in silence, but with a strange light in his eyes.... | |
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