 Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a wellinformed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 527edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Jane Austen - England - 1818 - 338 pages
...was no longer a proof of a fine day. She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance. A misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be...a well-informed mind, is to come with an inability ability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 460 pages
...was no longer a proof of a fine day. She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance — a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be...especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can. The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 464 pages
...was no longer a proof of a fine day. She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance — a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be...especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can. The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1837 - 456 pages
...heartily ashamed of her ignorance— a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they'V sEouIcTalways be ignorant. To come with a well-informed , mind,...to come with an inability of administering to the 1 vanity of others, which a sensible person would always | wish to avoid. A woman, especially, if she... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Women - 1853 - 946 pages
...was no longer a proof of a fine day. She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance. A misplaced shame. d thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily Tanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman, especially if she have... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1863 - 478 pages
...vastly his inferior. For Miss Austen remarks, with some justice as well as good-humored satire : " Where people wish to attach, they should always be...knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can." The surprise of the story — General Tilney's discovery of his mistake with regard to Catharine's... | |
 | William Ballantyne Hodgson - Business & Economics - 1869 - 158 pages
...should always be ignorant. To come with a well informed mind, is to come with an inability to administer to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would...knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. . . . Though to the larger and more trifling part of the (male) sex imbecility in women is a great... | |
 | Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 450 pages
...was no longer a proof of a fine day. She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance — a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be...especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can. The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl... | |
 | Oscar Fay Adams - Novelists, English - 1891 - 304 pages
...her day toward anything like the existence of reasoning powers in any representative of her own sex. "Where people wish to attach, they should always be...knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. "The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen... | |
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