 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 556 pages
...lavishly paid her, let us write upon her memorial tablet the words with which Dorothea is enshrined : " The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts ; and that things are not so bad with me and you as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was' incaleulably diffusive; for the growing good of the world is partly dependent...so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. PARTON. PARTON.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive : for the growing good of the world is partly dependent...so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. 6 Let the... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - Unitarianism - 1875 - 664 pages
...growing good of the world," she tells us, in words that have doubtless cheered many a weary heart, " is partly dependent on unhistoric acts ; and that...so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." And in the... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive; for the growing good of the world is partly dependent...so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. PARTON. 1822.1... | |
 | Association for the Advancement of Women - Women - 1877 - 404 pages
...self-sacrifice. Here we are shown something of the efficacy of a noble nature. in its saving influence on others. For " the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts." as George Eliot well says, and is not the record of such acts in fiction true realism ? What realism... | |
 | Elizabeth Thompson Spring - Congregationalists - 1879 - 184 pages
...OF THE DAY . . 75 IV. THE EVENING TIME 125 CHAPTER I. FAMILY INFLUENCES. \ I. FAMILY INFLUENCES. " That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs." MlDDLEMARCH.... | |
 | 1879 - 506 pages
...Thee." UNRECORDED WORTH. — The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric facts ; and that things are not so ill with you and me as might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited... | |
 | Endowed public schools (Great Britain) - 1881 - 200 pages
...itself in channels which had no great name on the earth ; but her influence was incalculably diffusive ; for the growing good of the world is partly dependent...acts ; and that things are not so ill with you and me is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." f his... | |
 | 260 pages
...being on those around her was incalculably diffusive ; for the growing good of the world partly depends on unhistoric acts, and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." This is... | |
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But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who... 
