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 | Jane Austen - England - 1818 - 338 pages
...of a sister author; — and to her treatment of the subject I will only add in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the...there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire any thing more in woman than ignorance. But Catherine did not know... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 464 pages
...pen of a sister author ; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though, to the larger and more trifling part of the...there is a portion of them too reasonable, and too well informed themselves, to desire any thing more in woman than ignorance. But Catherine did not know... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1837 - 456 pages
...pen of a sister author ; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though, /to the larger and more trifling part of the...their personal charms, there is a portion of them ' 1 too reasonable, and too well informed themselves, to desire any thing more in woman than ignorance.... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Women - 1853 - 946 pages
...a sister author ; — and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the...reasonable and too well-informed themselves to desire any thing more in woman than ignorance. But Catherine did not know her own advantages — did not know... | |
 | William Ballantyne Hodgson - Business & Economics - 1869 - 158 pages
...as she can. . . . Though to the larger and more trifling part of the (male) sex imbecility in women is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable, and too well informed themselves, to desire anything more in woman than ignorance." — Miss Austin, " Northanger... | |
 | Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 450 pages
...pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though, to the larger and more trifling part of the...reasonable, and too well-informed themselves, to desire any thing more in woman than ignorance. But Catherine did not know her own advantages — did not know... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1882 - 446 pages
...pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though, to the larger and more trifling part of the...reasonable, and too well-informed themselves, to desire any thing more in woman than ignorance. But Catherine did not know her own advantages — did not know... | |
 | William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 282 pages
...Ingenuity, and tenderness. Macaulay, Dante. Though to ttie larger and more trifling part of the sex [men} imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their...themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. Jane Aiuten, Northanger Abbey, xiv. = Syn. Infirmity, Imbecility, etc. (see debility) ; feebleness,... | |
 | Oscar Fay Adams - Novelists, English - 1891 - 304 pages
...pen of a sister author ; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the...there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance." It was never her intention... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 280 pages
...pen of a sister author ; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though, to the larger and more trifling part of the...themselves, to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. But Catherine did not know her own advantages ; did not know that a good-looking girl with an affectionate... | |
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