Mansfield Park : A Novel. In Three Volumes, Volume 2T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall., 1814 - Adoptees |
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Page 73 - ... speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient: at others, so bewildered and so weak ; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control ! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
Page 74 - The evergreen ! — How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen ! — When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature ! — In some countries we know the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence. You will think me...
Page 82 - I shall find you with yours, in spite of the nurseryman and the poulterer— or perhaps on their very account. Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds will be drawing forth bitter lamentations." "I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel any thing of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Page 72 - If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so seniceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!
Page 129 - Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connexions can supply...
Page 28 - ... defending his own share in it as far only as he could then, in a soberer moment, feel his motives to deserve, and acknowledging, with perfect ingenuousness, that his concession had been attended with such partial good as to make his judgment in it very doubtful. He was anxious, while vindicating himself, to say nothing unkind of the others: but there was only one amongst them whose conduct he could mention without some necessity of defence or palliation. "We have all been more or less to blame,"...
Page 55 - ... agitation. She thanked him for his great attention, his paternal kindness, but he was quite mistaken in supposing she had the smallest desire of breaking through her engagement, or was sensible of any change of opinion or inclination since her forming it. She had the highest esteem for Mr Rushworth's character and disposition, and could not have a doubt of her happiness with him. Sir Thomas was satisfied ; too glad to be satisfied, perhaps, to urge the matter quite so far as his judgment might...
Page 117 - Not exactly, though I shall be happy to do both, but that' would be exercise only to my body, and I must take care of my mind. Besides that...