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" But I thought it was right, Elinor," said Marianne, " to be guided wholly by the opinion of other people. I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of neighbours. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure. "
Sense and Sensibility - Page 82
by Jane Austen - 1901 - 341 pages
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Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion ...

Jane Austen - 1864 - 530 pages
...opinion of other people. I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of neighbours. This has always been your doctrine, I...when have I advised you to adopt their sentiments or to conform to their judgment in serious matters?" " You have not been able, then, to bring your sister...
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Sense and Sensibility, Volume 1

Jane Austen - 1892 - 268 pages
...other people. I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of our neighbors. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure." "...All I have ever attempted to influence has been the behavior. You must not confound my meaning. I am guilty, I confess, of having often wished you to treat...
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Sense and Sensibility, Volume 1

Jane Austen - 1899 - 264 pages
...other people. I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of our neighbors. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure." "'No,...All I have ever attempted to influence has been the behavior. You must not confound my meaning. I am guilty, I confess, of having often wished you to treat...
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Jane Austen

Francis Warre Cornish - 1929 - 212 pages
...controls works for her that is scorned and ridiculed by Marianne, who will have no recourse to it: 'But I thought it was right, Elinor,' said Marianne,...the behaviour. You must not confound my meaning.' Marianne's actions are guided by rules too, but those rules are very different from Elinor's. Obedience...
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Those Elegant Decorums: The Concept of Propriety in Jane Austen's Novels

Jane Nardin - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 194 pages
...laws and minor laws — as a regulator of social action. " 'My doctrine,' " Elinor tells Marianne, " 'has never aimed at the subjection of the understanding....All I have ever attempted to influence has been the behavior' " (p. 74). Though Elinor forms her own ideas about people and events, she is deeply convinced...
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Collected Essays: Volume 1. The Englishness of the English Novel

Q. D. Leavis - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...Against Marianne's ironical caricature of what she takes to be her sister's position Elinor protests: 'My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of...when have I advised you to adopt their sentiments or to conform to their judgment in serious matters?' Elinor, that is, is concerned to maintain a civilized...
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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to ...

Jenny Davidson - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 242 pages
...neighbours. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure" (93-94). "No, Marianne, never," Elinor responds. "My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of...ever attempted to influence has been the behaviour." (Edward has the last word on this topic, and it is a wry one: "You have not been able then to bring...
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Jane Austen

Robert P. Irvine - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 212 pages
...emotional response. She explains this 'plan of general civility' (Edward Ferrars's term) to Marianne thus: "My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of...ever attempted to influence has been the behaviour. ... I am guilty, I confess, of having often wished you to treat our acquaintance in general with greater...
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Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics ...

Michael Prince - History - 1996 - 316 pages
...always been your doctrine, I am sure" (1, xvii, pp. 93-94). Elinor, alarmed by the attack, responds, "No, Marianne, never. My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection of the understanding." Once again, Elinor is no doubt right; yet by referring to her own position as a "doctrine," she also...
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