 Jim's father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing the ease of mind of those whom an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions.  Lord Jim (Paperbound) - Page 5Limited preview - About this book
 | 1924 - 680 pages
...low — remarks that 'Jim's father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing...unerring Providence enables to live in mansions'; while in Nostromo again it takes in its leap the whole population of the South American republic of... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2007 - 338 pages
...of piety and peace. Jim's father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing...hill had the mossy greyness of a rock seen through i) ragged screen of leaves. It had stood there for centuries, but the trees around probably remembered... | |
 | Fredric Jameson - History - 1982 - 316 pages
...the one quoted above: Jim's father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing...an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions. [4] From our point of view, and from the logic of its insertion in Conrad's text, this ideological... | |
 | Martin Price - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 400 pages
...less met; his father, a parson, "possessed such certain knowledge of the unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing...an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions" (1). Like his father, Jim can overlook difficulties: if he is immobilized by danger, he can believe... | |
 | Marianne DeKoven - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 268 pages
...type of the English parson, who "possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing...an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions" (4). In fact the parson-father is the opposite of timeless — he is eminently historical. What he... | |
 | Rosemary Marangoly George - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 282 pages
...this unchanging home: Jim's father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing...enables to live in mansions. The little church on the hill had the mossy greyness of a rock seen through a ragged screen of leaves. It had stood there... | |
 | Andrew Gibson, R. G. Hampson, Robert Hampson - Ethics in literature - 1998 - 212 pages
...merchant-ships', has a clergyman father 'possessed [of] such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing...an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions' (LJ, p. 5). God wills social difference, but in his church all are equal; just as on a ship officers... | |
 | Rosemary Marangoly George - History - 1999 - 284 pages
...this unchanging home: Jim's father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing...unerring Providence enables to live in mansions. The litde church on the hill had the mossy greyness of a rock seen through a ragged screen of leaves. It... | |
 | Tamar Katz - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 264 pages
...notes at the start, "Jim's father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing...an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions" (46-47). In contrast, the relationship between Marlow and Jim embodies the privileged form of unknowing... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - Fiction - 2000 - 460 pages
...with incisive irony: Jim's father possessed such certain knowledge of the Unknowable as made for the righteousness of people in cottages without disturbing...an unerring Providence enables to live in mansions. In Lord Jim, Conrad's exploration of the rival claims of romanticism and sceptical realism entails... | |
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