 In consequence of this relatively advanced position, Yeobright might have been called unfortunate. The rural world was not ripe for him. A man should be only partially before his time : to be completely to the vanward in aspirations is fatal to fame.  Belgravia - Page 482by Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1878Full view - About this book
 | 1878 - 588 pages
...think he had better mind his business.' CHAPTER II. THE XEW OOUBSE CAUSES DISAPPOINTMENT. YEOBRIGHT loved his kind. He had a conviction that the want...aspirations is fatal to fame. Had Philip's warlike sou been intellectually so far ahead as to have attempted civilisation without bloodshed, he would... | |
 | Literature - 1878 - 968 pages
...than repentance for his text. Mentally he was iu a provincial future, that is, he -was in many point« synchronous with the central town thinkers of his...A man should be only partially before his time; to bo completely to the vauward in aspirations is fatal to fame. Had Philip's warlike sou been intellectually... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1898 - 392 pages
...ethical systems popular at the time. In consequence of this relatively advanced position, Yecbright might have been called unfortunate. The rural world...been intellectually so far ahead as to have attempted civilization without bloodshed, he would have been twice the godlike hero that he seemed, but nobody... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 534 pages
...his studious life in Paris, where he had become acquainted with ethical systems popular at the time. In consequence of this relatively advanced position,...been intellectually so far ahead as to have attempted civilization without bloodshed, he would have been twice the godlike hero that he seemed, but nobody... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1906 - 328 pages
...circumscribing events, which appear as if leagued together to allow no novelties in the way of amelioration. A MAN should be only partially before ^•*- his time : to be completely to the van ward in aspirations is fatal to fame. Had Philip's warlike son been intellectually so far ahead... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1917 - 442 pages
...his studious life in Paris, where he had become acquainted with ethical systems popular at the time. In consequence of this relatively advanced position,...partially before his time: to be completely to the van ward in aspirations is fatal to fame. Had Philip's warlike son been intellectually so far ahead... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1920 - 530 pages
...his studious life in Paris, where he had become acquainted with ethical systems popular at the time. In consequence of this relatively advanced position,...been intellectually so far ahead as to have attempted civilization without bloodshed, he would have been twice the godlike hero that he seemed, but nobody... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - 1922 - 536 pages
...his studious life in Paris, where he had become acquainted with ethical systems popular at the time. In consequence of this relatively advanced position,...partially before his time : to be completely to the van ward in aspirations is fatal to fame. Had Philip's warlike son been intellectually so far ahead... | |
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