It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money. A man will not be tempted to say the Lord's Prayer backward to please the devil, if he does n't want the devil's services.... Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life - Seite 14von George Eliot - 1872Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 Seiten
...submit to what I don't like. Dorothea. — But if you like what is good, that comes to the same thing. It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency...the devil, if he doesn't want the devil's services. If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 Seiten
...me one. It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right-doing depends on not being in want of money. A man will...have no need to hang on the smiles of chance now." "Oh, Brooke is such a leaky-minded fool," said Lydgate, contemptuously. "I don't see that there's any... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - 460 Seiten
...submit to what I don't like. Dorothea. — But if you like what is good, that comes to the same thing. It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency...the devil, if he doesn't want the devil's services. — o — If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more... | |
| 1881 - 408 Seiten
...be dogged by doubt nor the benign impalse checked by adverse theory."— Janet's Repentance. 50. " A man will not be tempted to say the Lord's Prayer...the devil, if he doesn't want the devil's services " — Middlemarck. 51. " What in the midst of that mighty drama are girls and their blind visions ?... | |
| George Eliot - 1894 - 468 Seiten
...said Lydgate, contemptuously. " Well, I was glad of the leakiness then. I don't see why you should n't like me to know that you wished to do me a service,...Lord's Prayer backward to please the devil, if he does n't want the devil's services. I have no need to hang on the smiles of chance now." " I don't... | |
| Leon Kellner, Gustav Krüger - 1906 - 502 Seiten
...Dickens findet: "you may read the Lord's Prayer backward", Great Expetations, I, 178; bei George Eliot: "a man will not be tempted to say the Lord's Prayer backward to please the Devil", Middlemarch III, 2, 92; bei William Blake: "this is saying the Lord's Prayer backward which, they say,... | |
| 1906 - 506 Seiten
...Dickens findet: "you may read the Lord's Prayer backward", Great Expetations, I, 178; bei George Eliot: "a man will not be tempted to say the Lord's Prayer backward to please the Devil", Middlemarch III, 2, 92; bei William Blake: "this is saying the Lord's Prayer backward which, they say,... | |
| George Eliot - 1908 - 468 Seiten
...glad of the leakiness then. I don't see why you should n't like me to know that you wished to do me-a service, my dear fellow. And you certainly have done...Lord's Prayer backward to please the Devil, if he does n't want the Devil's services. I have no need to hang on the smiles of chance now." "I don't see... | |
| George Eliot - 1908 - 464 Seiten
...said Lydgate, contemptuously. "Well, I was glad of the leakiness then. I don't see why you should n't like me to know that you wished to do me a service,...depends on not being in want of money. A man will no_t be tempted-4e-say the.Lxmi's Prayer backward to pleasejhe Devil, if he does n't want the Devil's... | |
| Anna Theresa Kitchel - 1921 - 354 Seiten
...plate, dishes with the utmost confidence in his ability to pay later. He has never had to recognize "how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money". The reason for his extravagance is, of course, his marriage with Rosamond, whose selfishness wrecks... | |
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