Impressions of Theophrastus Such (2nd ed., 1879)

IMPRESSIONS OF THEOPHRASTUS SUCH

GEORGE ELIOT

Second Edition

William Blackwood and Sons
Edinburgh and London

MDCCCLXXIX

"Suspicione si quis errabit sua,
Et rapiet ad se, quod erit commune omnium,
Stulte nudabit animi conscientiam
Huic excusatum me velim nihilominus
Neque enim notare singulos mens est mihi,
Verum ipsam vitam et mores hominum ostendere"
-Phaedrus

Chapter I: LOOKING INWARD
Chapter II: LOOKING BACKWARD
Chapter III: HOW WE ENCOURAGE RESEARCH
Chapter IV: A MAN SURPRISED AT HIS ORIGINALITY
Chapter V: A TOO DEFERENTIAL MAN
Chapter VI: ONLY TEMPER
Chapter VII: A POLITICAL MOLECULE
Chapter VIII: THE WATCH-DOG OF KNOWLEDGE
Chapter IX: A HALF-BREED
Chapter X: DEBASING THE MORAL CURRENCY
Chapter XI: THE WASP CREDITED WITH THE HONEYCOMB
Chapter XII: "SO YOUNG!"
Chapter XIII: HOW WE COME TO GIVE OURSELVES FALSE TESTIMONIALS, AND BELIEVE IN THEM
Chapter XIV: THE TOO READY WRITER
Chapter XV: DISEASES OF SMALL AUTHORSHIP
Chapter XVI: MORAL SWINDLERS
Chapter XVII: SHADOWS OF THE COMING RACE
Chapter XVIII: THE MODERN HEP! HEP! HEP!

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