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" A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name was first mentioned in Highbury, before she was, by some means or other, discovered to have every recommendation of person and mind — to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable... "
Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion - Page 158
by Jane Austen - 1903 - 1004 pages
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Emma, by the author of 'Pride and prejudice'. by Jane Austen

Jane Austen - 1833 - 460 pages
...without their being thrown together again, with any necessity, or even any power of speech. CHAPTER IV. HUMAN nature is so well disposed towards those who...or other, discovered to have every recommendation of person and mind, — to he handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable ; and when...
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Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Volume 2

Railroad engineering - 1834 - 434 pages
...gruel." A fresh aKquisition to village society : — A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's; паше was first mentioned in Highbury, before she was, by...or other, discovered to have every recommendation of person and mind ; to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and per-! !fectly amiable : and...
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Emma: A Novel

Jane Austen - 1841 - 452 pages
...without their being thrown together again, with any necessity, or even any power of speech. CHAPTER IV. HUMAN nature is so well disposed towards those who...or other, discovered to have every recommendation of person and mind, — to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable ; and when...
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Emma: A Novel

Jane Austen - 1867 - 464 pages
...might have done the day before, or an hour before, its interest soon increased ; and before their first conversation was over, she had talked herself into...or other, discovered to have every recommendation of person and mind, — to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable; and when...
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Sketches and essays, repr. from the Saturday review

Saturday review - 1873 - 316 pages
...rubbish, and that he feels bound to reciprocate the attention. " Human nature," says a great authoress, " is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting...marries or dies is sure of being kindly spoken of." Whatever may be the cause, the dilemma remains the same. Much mental agony is undergone, increasing...
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Emma

Jane Austen - 1882 - 436 pages
...without their being thrown together again with any necessity, or even any power of speech. CHAPTER IV. HUMAN nature is so well disposed towards those who...either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken ot A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name was first mentioned in Highbury, before she was,...
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Emma

Jane Austen - 1882 - 434 pages
...so well disposed towards those who area in interesting situations, that a young person, who eithen marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of. A week had not passed since Miss Hawkins's name waŁ first mentioned in Highbury, before she was, by some means or other, discovered to have every...
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Emma, Volume 364

Jane Austen - 1883 - 460 pages
...being thrown together again, with any necessity, or even any power of speech. CHAPTER XXII. jjUMAN nature is so well disposed towards those who are in...or other, discovered to have every recommendation of person and mind — to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectly amiable ; and when...
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The Story of Jane Austen's Life

Oscar Fay Adams - Novelists, English - 1891 - 304 pages
...remains simply good- humor with an edge to it, as, for example, when she says in " Emma " that — " Human nature is so well disposed towards those who...marries or dies is sure of being kindly spoken of; " or again in the same book that — " It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances...
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Emma, Volume 1

Jane Austen - 1901 - 336 pages
...might have done the day before, or an hour before, its interest soon increased; and before their first conversation was over, she had talked herself into...or other, discovered to have every recommendation of person and mind, — to be handsome, elegant, highly accomplished, and perfectl}' amiable; and when...
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