 | SMITH - 1862 - 924 pages
...imperious need of ascendancy had burned undiscernibly in the strong flame of his zeal for God and man. It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out...fling away the chalk, and boldly say, — the victim was spotted, but it was not therefore in vain that his mighty heart was laid on the altar of men's... | |
 | George Eliot - Florence (Italy) - 1863 - 776 pages
...imperious need of ascendancy had burned undiscernibly in the strong flame of his zeal for God and man. It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out...heart is laid on the altar of men's highest hopes. *o* CHAPTER VI. THE GARMENT OF FEAR. AT six o'clock that evening most people in Florence were glad... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...imperious need of ascendency had burned nndiscernibly in the strong flame of his zeal for God and man. It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out...fling away the chalk, and boldly say — the victim was spotted, but it was not therefore in vain that his mighty heart was laid on the altar of men's... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...burned undiscernibly in the strong flame of his zeal fur God and man. It was the fashion of old, when nn ox was led out for sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk...victim is spotted, but it is not therefore in vain tfiat his mighty heart is laid on the altar of men's highest hopes. CHAPTER XXVI. THE GARMENT OF FEAR.... | |
 | 1872 - 502 pages
...and have stood firm. As "George Eliot," with her unrivalled power of putting things, says of him, " It was the fashion of old when an ox was led out for...us fling away the chalk and boldly say the victim was spotted ; but it was not therefore in vain that his mighty he;irt was laid on the altar of man's... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...imperious need of ascendency had burned undiscernibly in the strong flame of his zeal for God and man. It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out...heart is laid on the altar of men's highest hopes. Enough, enough ! I am ap absurd old barber. It all comes from that abstinence of mine, in not making... | |
 | Reginald Bosworth Smith - Christianity and other religions - 1874 - 282 pages
...of those who have so kindly listened to me week after week can be half so conscious as myself — ' It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out...heart is laid on the altar of men's highest hopes.' APPENDICES. APPENDIX TO LECTURE I. SIR BARTLE FRERE, in an interesting and able and catholic essay... | |
 | Anthologies - 1875 - 606 pages
...was the fashion of old,' to quote the words of our greatest novelist and greatest psychologist.* ' It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out...heart is laid on the altar of men's highest hopes.' " * George Eliot. CENTRAL AMERICAN SKETCHES. BY HH IV. Ancient ruins — Native languages — Costumes... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...imperious need of ascendency had burned undiscernibly in the strong flame of his zeal for God and man. It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out...heart is laid on the altar of men's highest hopes. Enough, enough ! I am an absurd old barber. It all comes from that abstinence of mine, in not making... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1881 - 634 pages
...his false certitude about the Divine intentions, never ceased, in his own large soul, to be ennobled by that fervid piety, that passionate sense of the...heart is laid on the altar of men's highest hopes." Might such words be true of her who wrote them, too ! If, then, Dorothea be the noblest character George... | |
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It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out for sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk the dark spots, and give the offering a false show of unblemished whiteness. Let us fling away the chalk, and boldly say, — the victim is spotted, but it is not therefore... 
