 But, my dear Mrs. Casaubon," said Mr. Farebrother, smiling gently at her ardour, "character is not cut in marble — it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.  Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life - Стр. 181авторы: George Eliot - 1872Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1872 - Страниц: 796
...silence. As it is, the quickest of u« walk about well-wadded with stupidity ."—VoL i., p. 3Ö1. " Character is not cut in marble — it is not something...unalterable. It is something living and changing, and mav become diseased as our bodie« do."— Vol. iv., p. 182. Old Mr Featherstone's views of the Old... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - Страниц: 826
...silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well-wadded with stupidity." — Vol. i., ' P- 35 «• " Character is not cut in marble — it is not something...changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do." — Vol. iv., p. 182. Old Mr. Featherstone's views of the Old Testament dispensation are as original,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1873 - Страниц: 606
...them as a crime ; ' and, with regard to the heretofore unspotted reputation, which is aspersed : ' Character is not cut in marble — it is not something...changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do!' Lydgate cannot feel sure about himself. He is conscious that. that, somehow or other, the whole moral... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - Страниц: 444
...there is a man's character beforehand to speak for him. Mr Farebrother. — But, my dear Mrs Casaubon, character is not cut in marble— it is not something...changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. Dorothea. — Then it may be rescued and healed. Dorothea. — There are comparatively few paintings... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - Страниц: 460
...there is a man's character beforehand to speak for him. Mr Farebrother. — But, my dear Mrs Casaubon, character is not cut in marble — it is not something...solid and unalterable. It is something living and t changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. Dorothea. — Then it may be rescued and healed.... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - Страниц: 432
...indifferent, and will leave . you unaffected by them. " Character," as is said by our latest moralist, " is not cut in marble — it is not something solid...changing, and may become diseased, as our bodies do." You learn here, in season and out of season, line upon line, preeept upon precept, here a little and... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - Страниц: 424
...indifferent, and will leave you unaffected by them. " Character," as is said by our latest moralist, " is riot cut in marble — it is not something solid and unalterable,...changing, and may become diseased, as our bodies do." You learn here, in season and out of season, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1876 - Страниц: 424
...you unaffected by them. " Character," as is said by our latest moralist, " is not cat in marble—it is not something solid and unalterable, it is something...changing, and may become diseased, as our bodies do." You learn here, in season and out of season, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1877 - Страниц: 424
...and will leave you unaffected by them. " Character," as is said by our latest moralist, " is not cat in marble — it is not something solid and unalterable,...changing, and may become diseased, as our bodies do." You learn here, in season and out of season, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Burnham - 1883 - Страниц: 324
...seeing more and more of truth. — Dr. James Freeman Clarhe. Character is not cut in marble, — is mt something solid and unalterable. It is something living...changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do. — George Eliot. Insanity is not a distinct and separate empire : our ordinary life borders upon it,... | |
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