 | Shawna Mullen - Self-Help - 2003 - 244 pages
...Fairfax, EM Poverty "And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense of the world as appears at first; for a very narrow...inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross." Emma Woodhouse, EM I find, on looking into my affairs, that instead of being very rich I am likely... | |
 | Paula Byrne - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 180 pages
...pleasant as anybody else. And the distinction is not quite so much against the candour and common sense of the world as appears at first; for a very narrow...not apply, however, to Miss Bates; she is only too good natured and too silly to suit me; but, in general, she is very much to the taste of everybody,... | |
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... a very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, -and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross. 
