Vulgar words in The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete (Page 1)
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Precepts of charity uttered with a faint breath at the end of a sermon are perfectly futile, when all the force of the lungs has been spent in keeping the hearer's mind fixed on the conception of his fellow-men not as fellow-sinners and fellow-sufferers, but as agents of hell, as automata through whom Satan plays his game upon earth-not on objects which call forth their reverence, their love, their hope of good even in the most strayed and perverted, but on a minute identification of human things with such symbols as the scarlet whore, the beast out of the abyss, scorpions whose sting is in their tails, men who have the mark of the beast, and unclean spirits like frogs.
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The mass-the English blockheads, God forgive me!-are hateful to me in my inmost soul; and I often regard them not at all as my fellow-men, but as miserable automata-machines, whose motive power is egoism.
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The peasant never begins his lawsuit in summer, for the same reason that he does not make love and marry in summer-because he has no time for that sort of thing.
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And so we have again and again the old story of La Fontaine's ass, who pats his nose to the flute, and, finding that he elicits some sound, exclaims, "Moi, aussie, je joue de la flute"-a fable which we commend, at parting, to the consideration of any feminine reader who is in danger of adding to the number of "silly novels by lady novelists." p. 205 VII.