[Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot]@TWC D-Link bookScenes of Clerical Life CHAPTER 3 9/28
As I tell Eliza I was not blest as she is at the age of two-and-twenty, in knowing a clergyman who unites all that is great and admirable in intellect with the highest spiritual gifts.
I am no contemptible judge of a man's acquirements, and I assure you I have tested Mr.Tryan's by questions which are a pretty severe touchstone.
It is true, I sometimes carry him a little beyond the depth of the other listeners.
Profound learning,' continued Miss Pratt, shutting her spectacles, and tapping them on the book before her, 'has not many to estimate it in Milby.' 'Miss Pratt,' said Rebecca, 'will you please give me Scott's "Force of Truth ?" There--that small book lying against the "Life of Legh Richmond."' 'That's a book I'm very fond of--the "Life of Legh Richmond,"' said Mrs. Linnet.
'He found out all about that woman at Tutbury as pretended to live without eating.
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