 There are so many things wrong and difficult in the world, that no man can be great — he can hardly keep himself from wickedness — unless he gives up thinking much about pleasure or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful. My...  Macmillan's Magazine - Seite 2781866Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 806 Seiten
...he gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful. My father had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood. And there was Fra Girolamo—you know why I keep to-morrow sacred: he had the greatness which belongs... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 Seiten
...he gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful. My father had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood. And there was Fra Girolamo — you know why I keep to-morrow sacred : he had the greatness which belongs... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 Seiten
...wickedness — unless he gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard or painful. My father had the greatness that...nobody can help understanding. Like the old man, Bardo, the young Felix chooses poverty and obscurity rather than a competence which involved habitual insincerity.... | |
 | 1866 - 802 Seiten
...unless he gives up " thinking much about pleasures or " rewards, and gets strength to endure " what is hard or painful. My father " had the greatness...nobody can help understanding. Like the old man, Bardo, the young Felix chooses poverty and obscurity rather than a competence which involved habitual insincerity.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 Seiten
...unless he gives up thinking much about pleasure or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful. My father had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood. And there was Fra Girolamo, — you know why I keep to-morrow sacred ; he. had the greatness which... | |
 | 1873 - 778 Seiten
...unless he gives ap thinking much about pleasure or reward, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful. My father had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood. And there was Fra Girolamo — you know why I keep to-morrow sacred: he had the greatness which belongs... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 Seiten
...unless he gives up thinking much about pleasure or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful. My father had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood. And there was Fra Girolamo — you know why I keep to-morrow sacred ; he had the greatness which belongs... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 Seiten
...unless he gives up thinking much about pleasure or reward, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful. My father had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood. And there was Fra Girolamo — you know why I keep to-morrow sacred: he had the greatness which belongs... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 Seiten
...unless he gives up thinking much about pleasure or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard and painful. My father had the greatness that belongs...chose poverty and obscurity rather than falsehood. And there was Fra Girolamo — you know why I keep to-morrow sacred ; he had the greatness which belongs... | |
 | John Morley - 1878 - 326 Seiten
...wickedness—unless he gives up thinking much about pleasures or rewards, and gets strength to endure what is hard or painful. My father had the greatness that...nobody can help understanding. Like the old man, Bardo, the young Felix chooses poverty and obscurity rather than a competence which involved habitual insincerity.... | |
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