 Posterity may be shot, like a bullet through a tube, by atmospheric pressure from Winchester to Newcastle: that is a fine result to have among our hopes; but the slow oldfashioned way of getting from one end of our country to the other is the better thing...  The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot - Էջ 22Nancy Henry - 2008 - 129 էջՄասամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1866 - 352 էջ
...least of them is the memory of a long journey in mid-spring or autumn on the outside of a stage-coach. Posterity may be shot, like a bullet through a tube,...country to the other is the better thing to have in the memory. The tube-journey can never lend much to picture and narrative ; it is as barren as an exclamatory... | |
 | George Eliot - 1866 - 200 էջ
...least of them is the memory of a long journey in mid-spring or autumn on the outside of a stage-coach. Posterity may be shot, like a bullet, through a tube,...country to the other is the better thing to have in the. memory. The tube-journey can never lend much to picture and narrative ; it is as barren as an... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 446 էջ
...least of them is the memory of a long journey in mid-spring or autumn on the outside of a stage-coach. Posterity may be shot, like a bullet through a tube,...country to the other is the better thing to have in tho memory. The tube-journey can never lend much to picture and narrative ; it is as barren as an exclamatory... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1868 - 548 էջ
...least of them is the memory of a long journey in mid-spring or autumn on the outside of a stage-coach. Posterity may be shot, like a bullet through a tube,...old-fashioned way of getting from one end of our country to A the other is the better thing to have in the memory. The tube-journey can never lend much to picture... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 էջ
...least of them is the memory of a long journey in midspring or autumn on the outside of a stage coach. Posterity may be shot, like a bullet through a tube,...country to the other is the better thing to have in the memory. The tube journey can never lend much to picture and narrative — it is as barren as an... | |
 | George Eliot - 1871 - 568 էջ
...least of them is the memory of a Jong journey in midspring or autumn on the outside of a stage-coach. Posterity may be shot, like a bullet, through a tube,...country to the other is the better thing to have in the memory. The tube-journey can never lend much to picture and narrative ; it is as barren as an exclamatory... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 էջ
...least of them is the memory of a long journey in mid-spring or autumn on the outside of a stage-coach. Posterity may be shot, like a bullet through a tube,...country to the other is the better thing to have in the memory. The tube-journey can never lend much to picture and narrative ; it is as barren as an exclamatory... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 էջ
...least of them is the memory of a long journey in mid- spring or autumn on the outside of a stage-coach. Posterity may be shot, like a bullet through a tube,...country to the other is the better thing to have in the memory. The tube-journey can never lend much to picture and narrative ; it is as barren as an exclamatory... | |
 | Robert Kirkup Dent - 1880 - 674 էջ
...least of them is the memory of a long journey in mid-spring or autumn on the outside of a stage-coach. Posterity may be shot, like a bullet through a tube,...pressure, from Winchester to Newcastle : that is a iino result to have among our hopes ; but the slow, old-fashioned way of getting from one end of our... | |
 | 1908 - 710 էջ
...runaways and in killing the most people. George Eliot, contrasting old and new ways of traveling, said : " Posterity may be shot, like a bullet, through a tube,...atmospheric pressure, from Winchester to Newcastle." One might think that that period were well nigh at hand, and that ere long the chronically impatient... | |
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