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...ane Austen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Chapter 1 IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledged, ... ...hem?” “My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be 4 Pride and Prejudice so tiresome! Y ou must know that I am thinking of his marry- ing ... ...u.” Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply, but, unable to 6 Pride and Prejudice contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters. “Don’t keep... ... sat about ten minutes with him in his library. He had enter- 8 Pride and Prejudice tained hopes of being admitted to a sight of the young ladies, of... ...his own and coldly said: “She is tolerable, but not handsome 10 Pride and Prejudice enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give conseque... ... him. Y ou have liked many a stupider person.” “Dear Lizzy!” 12 Pride and Prejudice “Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in ge... ...authorized by such commendation to think of her as he chose. 14 Pride and Prejudice Chapter 5 WITHIN A SHORT WALK of Longbourn lived a family with wh...

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...Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be...

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...XXVIII 125 XXIX 129 XXX 135 XXXI 138 XXXII 142 XXXIII 146 XXXIV 151 Pride and Prejudice iii XXXV 156 XXXVI 162 XXXVII 167 XXXVIII 171 XXXIX 174 XL 17... ...any young men of four thousand a year come into the neighbourhood.” Pride and Prejudice 5 “It will be no use to us, if twenty such should come since ... ...ve the advantage of your friend, and introduce Mr. Bingley to her.” Pride and Prejudice 7 “Impossible, Mr. Bennet, impossible, when I am not acquaint... ...he might be always flying about from one place to another, and never Pride and Prejudice 9 settled at Netherfield as he ought to be. Lady Lucas quieted... ...evening, a most excellent ball. I wish you had been there. Jane was Pride and Prejudice 11 so admired, nothing could be like it. Every body said how ... ...his man’s sisters too, do you? Their manners are not equal to his.” Pride and Prejudice 13 “Certainly not; at first. But they are very pleasing women ... ...are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self complacency Pride and Prejudice 17 on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. ... ...t he may never do more than like her, if she does not help him on.” Pride and Prejudice 19 “But she does help him on, as much as her nature will allo... ... to cool your porridge,’ — and I shall keep mine to swell my song.” Pride and Prejudice 21 Her performance was pleasing, though by no means capital. ...

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...Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a single man in possession of a large fortune. Sparks fly when sweet, pretty Jane meets their new nei...

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...Pride and Prejudice, first published on 28 January 1813, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. It is one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English litera...

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...Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen’s novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be...

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...lack of wealth, throw in a new wealthy neighbor or two, plus a whole regiment of soldiers in town, and add a heaping spoonful of pride and a pinch of prejudice. Mix it all together and you get a story full of tears and laughter, embarrassment and pride, and, of course, love. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...

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... have heard or read about a thing, a circumstance or a person, you bind an opinion for that without even verifying its truth. Gradually it turns into prejudice. Such prejudices give rise to results far worse than those that the planets in the horoscope would. By harboring prejudice, it later results in suspicion. Suspicion is a great weakness; it is destructive to the Self...

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... have heard or read about a thing, a circumstance or a person, you bind an opinion for that without even verifying its truth. Gradually it turns into prejudice. Such prejudices give rise to results far worse than those that the planets in the horoscope would. By harboring prejudice, it later results in suspicion. Suspicion is a great weakness; it is destructive to the Self...

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... have heard or read about a thing, a circumstance or a person, you bind an opinion for that without even verifying its truth. Gradually it turns into prejudice. Such prejudices give rise to results far worse than those that the planets in the horoscope would. By harboring prejudice, it later results in suspicion. Suspicion is a great weakness; it is destructive to the Self...

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...The book analyses that uptill now Muslims have tended to attribute their problems to prejudice and discrimination and to waste the better part of their time and energy in railing against offenders who often exist only in their own imaginations. What the author has to say is simply that it is high time they ch...

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...n of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best–chosen language. The title of Austen's Pride and Prejudice may have been inspired by a passage at the end of Cecilia: “remember: if to pride and prejudice you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good and evil balanced, that to pride and prejudice you will also owe their te...

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... recked Fitzjocelyn of the murmurs which he had provoked, as he guessed the true secret of his victory. In his eyes, it was the triumph of merit over prejudice, and Mrs. Frost espoused the same gratifying view, though ascribing much to her nephew?s activity, and James himself, flushed with hope and success, was not likely to dissent....

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... true secret of his victory. In his eyes, it was the triumph of merit over prejudice, and Mrs. Frost espoused the same gratifying view, though ascribi... ...t of all, but you know it was 137 Yo n g e not Jem who spoke. It was only prejudice and temper. He is not himself.’ The dim light seemed to encourage... ... would be wrong and cruel to cast away her uncle, and be swayed by James’s prejudice; and Lord Ormersfield told her with grave approval that she was q... ...I bowed him out upon that majestic quadruped, talking grandly of illiberal prejudices and the rising generation.’ ‘You acknowledged that he had a clai... ... gaw him so excessively amused, she ventured to laugh too at her an- cient prejudice, and the strange chance which had made the fantastic Viscount, Si...

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... hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate....

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...ity. He is an honourable, obstinate, truth ful, high spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreason able man. 14 Bleak House – Vol. One Sir Le... ..., from her maid to the manager of the Italian Opera, knows her weaknesses, prejudices, follies, haughtinesses, and caprices and lives upon as accurate... ...our office; we can separate the individual from the pursuit. We are not so prejudiced as to suppose that in private life you are otherwise than a very... ...tion?” Not knowing what to say, I sat down again. “What follows is without prejudice, miss?” said Mr. Guppy, anxiously bringing a chair towards my tab... ...versation shouldn’t lead to anything, I am to be as I was and am not to be prejudiced in my situation or worldly prospects. In short, it’s in total co... ...ried Mr. Guppy, checking me as I was about to ring. “This has been without prejudice?” “I will never mention it,” said I, “unless you should give me f...

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... in Journey to Freedom. Greggory is a half-breed; a mix of Indian and black blood, and struggles both emotionally and physically with hatred and prejudice. Robert is a slave on a Florida plantation who takes in the starving, angry young Greggory, under his wing and helps him grow into a man of honor. Marrissa is a young girl who watches her mother waste away w...

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...Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various writing styles as a teenager in the early 1790s. This is a collection of her juvenilia, including the epistolary novels Love and Freindship, Lesley Castle, and Lady S...

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...izabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and what so liberal a historian avows, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his n...

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... same feelings; for the candid Robertson himself confesses having felt the prejudices with which a Scottishman is tempted to regard the subject; and w... ...s, a poor romance-writer dares not disown. But he hopes the influence of a prejudice, almost as natural to him as his native air, will not be found to... ...ght the devil when he is raised and at the wildest. And above all, without prejudice to others, he must have such godly, innocent, puritanic souls as ... ...rned to my ruin? I hope that my faithful advice will not be bewrayed to my prejudice? I implore that—” “Content thee, man—content thee!” said the Coun... ... “If thou hast trifled with us—much more, if thou hast done aught that may prejudice Sir Hugh Robsart’s health, thou shalt find thy grave at the botto... ...reign, or whether, in very deed, my meddling in your affair may not rather prejudice than serve you.” Thus spoke Sussex while hastily casting around h... ... thy destiny, and make us an ounce or two of this same stuff; which cannot prejudice above one or two individuals, in order to gain lifetime to discov... ... thou keepest time and touch, and exceedest not the due proportion, to the prejudice of her health; other- wise thy punishment shall be as signal.” “T... ...judice of her health; other- wise thy punishment shall be as signal.” “The prejudice of her health!” repeated Alasco; “it is, then, a woman I am to us...

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...er in a poor family, Fannie is sent to rich relatives when she’s just old enough to fully appreciate the shame of her circumstances. Without pride or prejudice, Fanny sticks to principles in all matters. And matters certainly put her to the test. (Summary by Anita)...