 | Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 Seiten
...Anniversary I found this sentiment from George Eliot, assigned to the FOURTH OF JUNE: "Blessed is the woman who having nothing to say abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact." Although not unusually superstitious the query would intrude : "Art thou that woman ?" Yet a wordy... | |
 | George Eliot - 1879 - 252 Seiten
...wing-flapping brood to soar and make twilight. Peace be with Lentulus, for he has left ns in peace. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact— from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1880 - 494 Seiten
...be entirely nullified while there are still left some men and women who are not fit for the highest. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact — from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 696 Seiten
...wing-flapping brood to soar and make twilight. Peace be with Lentulus, for he has left us in peace. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact — from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 404 Seiten
...be entirely nullified while there are still left some men and women who are not fit for the highest. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact, — from calling on us to look through a heap of milletseed in order to be sure that there is no pearl... | |
 | 1885 - 686 Seiten
...FATHER RUSSELL, " To-day, cutting the leaves of George Eliot's latest book, I came upon the sentence ' Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.' This is my justification at present— «o, do nojt blame but bless me.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1886 - 520 Seiten
...wing-flapping brood to soar and make twilight. Peace be with Lentulus, for he has left us in peace. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact — from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl... | |
 | George Eliot - 1887 - 520 Seiten
...wing-flapping brood to soar and make twilight. Peace be with Lentulus, for he has left us in peace. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact — from calling on us to look through a heap of millet-seed in order to be sure that there is no pearl... | |
 | 1888 - 438 Seiten
...lifting it from the low plane on which the French school of his day had placed it, and coordinating it with all the invigorating branches of mental life....and serves to quicken within the reader a genuine literary impulse. No one can read the prose of Mr. Arnold with carefulness and sympathetic attention,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 Seiten
...that he has wherewithal to pay. 5293 Lord Chesterfield : Letters to Tlis Son. Bath, Oct. 19, 1748. Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. 5294 George Eliot : T1teophrastus Such. Ch. 6. No one would talk much in society if he only knew how... | |
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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact... 
