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The politeness which she had been brought up to practice as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self...more

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She had always wanted to do every thing, and had made more progress in both drawing and music than many might have done with so little labour as she e...more

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It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adhe...more

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Mrs. Norris had been talking to her the whole way from Northampton of her wonderful good fortune, and the extraordinary degree of gratitude and good b...more

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Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to ...more

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I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too...more

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There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.""And y...more

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There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance o...more