 When I am quite determined as to the time, I am not at all afraid of being long unemployed. There are places in town, offices, where inquiry would soon produce something, — offices for the sale, not quite of human flesh, but of human intellect." "Oh,...  Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes - Page 324by Jane Austen - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Jane Austen - 1867 - 464 pages
...produce something — offices for the sale, not quite of human flesh, but of human intellect." J " Oh ! my dear, human flesh ! You quite shock me ; if...Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition." in view ; widely different certainly as to the guilt of those who carry it on ; but as to the greater... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 646 pages
...myself, and should be sorry to have any made by my friends. When I am quite determined as to the time, I am not at all afraid of being long unemployed. There...slave-trade," replied Jane; "governess-trade, I assure yon, was all that I had in view, — widely different 'certainly as to the guilt of those who carry... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 284 pages
...myself, and should be sorry to have any made by my friends. When I am quite determined as to the time, I am not at all afraid of being long unemployed. There...! You quite shock me ; if you mean a fling at the slave trade, I assure you Mr Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition." trade," replied... | |
 | Jane Austen - English fiction - 1892 - 288 pages
...myself, and should be sorry to have any made by my friends. When I am quite determined as to the time, I am not at all afraid of being long unemployed. There...flesh ! You quite shock me; if you mean a fling at the slave trade, I assure you Mr Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition." " I d : d not mean—I... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1911 - 406 pages
...unemployed. 8 F 81 There are places in town, offices, where inquiry would soon produce something—offices for the sale, not quite of human flesh, but of human...always rather a friend to the abolition.' ' I did not mean—I was not thinking of the slave-trade,' replied Jane; ' governess-trade, I assure you, was all... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1915 - 400 pages
...myself, and should be sorry to have any made by my friends. When I am quite determined as to the time, I am not at all afraid of being long unemployed. There...flesh! You quite shock me; if you mean a fling at the slave trade, I assure you Mr Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition." "I did not mean... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 212 pages
...point, exposing the uneasiness of the nouveaux riches about being identified with ungenerous causes: "You quite shock me; if you mean a fling at the slave-trade,...Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition" (E 300). But the emphasis of Jane's analogy implies a heartfelt protest, not simply against slave traders,... | |
 | Jane Austen - Fiction - 1994 - 388 pages
...intellect!' 'Oh! my dear, human flesh! You quite shock me; if you mean a fling at the slave trade, I assure you Mr Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition.'60 'I did not mean - I was not thinking of the slave-trade,' replied Jane; 'governess-trade,... | |
 | D. W. Harding - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 240 pages
...myself, and should be sorry to have any made by my friends. When I am quite determined as to the time, I am not at all afraid of being long unemployed. There...flesh! You quite shock me; if you mean a fling at the slave trade, I assure you Mr Suckling was always rather a friend to the abolition.' 'I did not mean... | |
 | Christopher Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 252 pages
...governess, Jane Fairfax demurs. When the time is ripe, 'there are places in town, offices, where enquiry would soon produce something — Offices for the sale...abolition.' 'I did not mean, I was not thinking of the slave trade,' replied Jane; 'governess-trade, I assure you, was all that I had in view; widely different... | |
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