Page:Eliot - Felix Holt, the Radical, vol. I, 1866.djvu/114

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FELIX HOLT.

chosen mother of God's people, showed a spirit of unbelief, and perhaps of selfish anger; and it is a passage that bears the unmistakable signet, 'doing honour to the wife or woman, as unto the weaker vessel.' For therein is the greatest check put on the ready scorn of the natural man."