"Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for..." - Quote by Jane Austen
Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.
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“There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.”
“And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.”
“Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.”
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