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" 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 322
by Jane Austen - 1913 - 347 pages
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The Novels of Jane Austen: Sense and sensibility

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...
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Sense and Sensibility, Volume 2

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!...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 80

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...
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Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Jane Austen: Studies in Their Works

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...
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Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Persuasion

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...
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The Novels of Jane Austen: Sense & sensibility, 2 v

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...
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The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen, Volume 2

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...
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The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen, Volume 2

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...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 3; Volume 134

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...
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Jane Austen

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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