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" Mrs. Ferrars to his choice, and re-established him completely in her favour. The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing... "
Sense and Sensibility: a Novel - Page 325
by Jane Austen - 1833 - 331 pages
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Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds

Oliver MacDonagh - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 212 pages
...prosper more. The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it ... may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience. (p. 376) The ultimate words imply, however, that there is a price to be paid for everything, even -...
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Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820

Edward Copeland - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 316 pages
...representative of this order: "The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (p. 376). The prudent way of the pseudo-gentry, that is to say, of the Dashwood women and Edward Ferrars...
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Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind

Patricia Meyer Spacks - Education - 1995 - 310 pages
...forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest . . . will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (376). Attention to the self and its interests in Lucy appears unambiguously reprehensible, partly...
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Jane Austen: Illusion and Reality

Christopher Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 252 pages
...Robert into marrying her and his rich, stupid mother, Mrs Ferrars, into making a favourite of her. The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the...fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.2 On a similar note, in Persuasion, early in the final chapter, a moral is drawn. When any...
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Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time

Mary Waldron - Literary Criticism - 2001
...blatant misdeeds of others also go unpunished. Lucy, married to the heir to the Ferrars fortune, shows 'what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest,...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience' (SS 376); Willoughby 'lived to exert, and frequently to enjoy himself (SS 379). The most venal of the...
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The Wisdom of Jane Austen

Shawna Mullen - Self-Help - 2003 - 244 pages
..."Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure." Mary Crawford, MP The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience. SS Self-pity Everybody around her was gay and busy, prosperous and important; each had their object...
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Hypocrisy and the Politics of Politeness: Manners and Morals from Locke to ...

Jenny Davidson - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 242 pages
...Pamela in her incarnation as Shamela.14 The prosperity which crowns Lucy's duplicity, says the narrator, "may be held forth as a most encouraging instance...fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience."'5 Elinor Dashwood's reward is more modest: marriage to the less wealthy Ferrars brother....
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Miniatures and Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen

Peter J. Leithart - Fiction - 2004 - 203 pages
...what a determined devotion to self-interest might bring; like Willoughby, Lucy's story is a parable: "A most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (p. 267). Austen is a moralist, but, as John Lauber has put it, she is not a "punitive" moralist. Sometimes...
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Searching for Jane Austen

Emily Auerbach - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 364 pages
...forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest . . . will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (376). Why might Austen call this behavior "encouraging" or refer to John Dashwood as "respectable"?...
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Philosophical Dialogue in the British Enlightenment: Theology, Aesthetics ...

Michael Prince - History - 1996 - 316 pages
...of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to selfinterest, however its progress may apparently be obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of...other sacrifice than that of time and conscience" (1n, xiv, p. 376). Good causes produce bad effects; bad causes produce good effects. Embracing Imlac's...
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