But our deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own will Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never : they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness ; and that dreadful vitality of deeds... Some Aspects of the Greek Genius - Side 117af Samuel Henry Butcher - 1893 - 321 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| SMITH - 1862 - 924 sider
...wished now he had never risked ignominy by shrinking from what his fellow-men called obligations. But our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never : they have an indestructible life both in... | |
| George Eliot - 1863 - 348 sider
...obligations. But our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never:...indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness; and that dreadful vitality of deeds was pressing hard on Tito for the first time. He was going back... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 sider
...wished now he had never risked ignominy by shrinking from what his fellow-men called obligations. But our deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never ; they have an indestructible life both in... | |
| 1867 - 524 sider
...att hvarje handling har sitt gifna inflytande på sinnelaget, som det är omöjligt att undvika, att »our deeds are like children that are born to us: they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never, they ha ve an indestructible life, both... | |
| George Eliot - 1870 - 816 sider
...wished now he had I never risked ignominy by shrinking from what his fellow-men called obligations. But our deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeda never : they have an indestructible life both in... | |
| 1872 - 894 sider
...intervene in the affairs of men, lead her gaze away from the stern, undeniable facts of the actual world. " Our deeds are like children that are born to us ;...indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness." Other teachers transfigure and transmute human joys and sorrows, fears and hopes, loves and hatreds,... | |
| Arthur Matthison - 1872 - 240 sider
...opposed to each other, and forming a harmony comparable to the most magnificent creations of Nature. OUR deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own will, and have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness. " THE fewer relations... | |
| David Kay - 1873 - 242 sider
...and will, and thereby contributing to form the character of the future." — (SMILES : Character.) " Our deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay; children may be strangled, but deeds never ; they have an indestructible life both in... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 sider
...raised must make a likeness in human building that will be broader and deeper than all possible change. Our deeds are like children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own- will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never : they have an indestructible life both... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - 460 sider
...raised must make a likeness in human building that will be broader and deeper than all possible change. Our deeds are like' children that are born to us ; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never : they have an indestructible life both in... | |
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