Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen,... Sense and Sensibility - Page 322by Jane Austen - 1913 - 347 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jane Austen - English fiction - 1892 - 248 pages
...counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment...lively friendship, voluntarily to give her hand to another!—and that other, a man who had suffered no less than herself under the event of a former... | |
| Jane Austen - England - 1899 - 314 pages
...to counteract by her conduct her most favorite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment...former attachment, whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be married, and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel waistcoat!... | |
| David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - English literature - 1899 - 536 pages
...counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment...former attachment, — whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be married— and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel... | |
| Henry Houston Bonnell - English fiction - 1902 - 486 pages
...to counteract by her conduct her most favorite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen and, with no sentiment...former attachment, whom, two years before she had considered too old to be married, — and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel... | |
| Jane Austen - England - 1903 - 1020 pages
...counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment...former attachment, whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be married, and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel waistcoat... | |
| Jane Austen - 1905 - 310 pages
...to counteract by her conduct her most favourite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment...friendship, voluntarily to give her hand to another I and that other, a man who had suffered no less than herself under the event of a former attachment... | |
| Jane Austen - 1906 - 362 pages
...counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. She was borne to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment...former attachment, — whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be married, — and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel... | |
| Jane Austen - Novelists, English - 1906 - 352 pages
...counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. She was borne to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment...former attachment, — whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be married, — and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel... | |
| 1900 - 1162 pages
...counteract, by her conduct, her most favorite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed so late In life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment...former attachment, — whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be married— and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel... | |
| Francis Warre Cornish - 1913 - 268 pages
...counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims. She was born to overcome an affection formed so late in life as at seventeen, and with no sentiment...former attachment, whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be married, — and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel... | |
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