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" Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact... "
Studies in Literature and Style - Page 231
by Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 297 pages
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Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends

Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1891 - 900 pages
...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...
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Impressions of Theophrastus Such

George Eliot - 1879 - 252 pages
...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...
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Wise, witty, and tender sayings, in prose and verse, selected from the works ...

Mary Ann Evans - 1880 - 494 pages
...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...
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Romola: Impressions of Theophrastus Such

George Eliot - 1883 - 696 pages
...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...
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Wit & Wisdom

George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...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...
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Irish Monthly, Volume 13

1885 - 686 pages
...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....
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Works, Volume 7

George Eliot - 1886 - 520 pages
...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...
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Theophrastus Such; Jubal, and Other Poems ; And, The Spanish Gypsy

George Eliot - 1887 - 520 pages
...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...
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The New Princeton Review, Issue 6

1888 - 438 pages
...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,...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...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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