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After many weeks lapsed and no answer, rereading the text for so many times, it seems I should answer the question myself!
No it is not contradictory and in fact, D.H. Lawrence has referred to and...

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D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love: What is the notion of sensuality adopted by Birkin, especially when discussed in "Moony" chapter, when he says the relation between senses and outspoken mind was broken?...

So what about this one: "... who must needs pull up cumbersomely and wait to be let through." Far from the Madding Crowd, T. Hardy, Collins, 366
must needs pull???

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Dear friends! Can you help me with the structure of the verb in this sentence? (I had it some time ago in the translation of Odysseus too)

"I had need have you always to find fault with me ..."...

So we can conclude that "temptations of beauty" means the temptations which one has when beauty is the matter of the course or when he/she is beautiful and in the same way way there are temptations...

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Here I have another quote of "The Mill on the Floss" p331

"Do not think too hardly of Philip. Ugly and deformed people have great need of unusual virtues,
because they are likely to be extremely...

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Thanks. So the only way to analyse is to say "having carried on a successful business in spite of this disadvantage" is adverbial phrase and the coordinate conjunction "and" before this phrase links...

So, if the subject of "had acquired" is "excellent men", what is the subject of "must...take"? if it is "excellent men" again, We cannot bind two verbs to a single subject without a coordinate...

Dear friends, the structure of this sentence confuses me. It seems there are two main verbs in a subordinate structure without a coordinate conjunction:

Excellent men, who had been forced all...

Oh, thanks a lot! In fact I never happened to think of lot in terms of its NOUN part of speech.

Philip had only lived fifteen years, but those years had, most of them, been steeped in the sense of a lot irremediably hard. (The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot, Oxford University Press, p. 181)...