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" to be guided wholly by the opinion of other people. I thought our judgments were given us merely to be subservient to those of our neighbours. This has always been your doctrine, I am sure." "No, Marianne, never. My doctrine has never aimed at the subjection... "
Sense and Sensibility: a Novel - Page 78
by Jane Austen - 1833 - 331 pages
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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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Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen - Fiction - 2003 - 476 pages
...Elinor,' said Marianne, 'to be guided wholly by the opinion of other people. I thought our judgements were given us merely to be subservient to those of...attempted to influence has been the behaviour. You 114 must not confound my meaning. I am guilty, I confess, of having often wished you to treat our acquaintance...
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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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