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1  It is not by equality of merit that you can be won.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  You are infinitely my superior in merit; all that I know.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  With him it is entirely a matter of feeling: he claims no merit in it; perhaps is entitled to none.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  Mrs. Norris accepted the compliment, and admired the nice discernment of character which could so well distinguish merit.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  It is he who sees and worships your merit the strongest, who loves you most devotedly, that has the best right to a return.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Well might his sister, believing as she really did that his opinion of Fanny Price was scarcely beyond her merits, rejoice in her prospects.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  With so much true merit and true love, and no want of fortune and friends, the happiness of the married cousins must appear as secure as earthly happiness can be.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
8  He had suspected his agent of some underhand dealing; of meaning to bias him against the deserving; and he had determined to go himself, and thoroughly investigate the merits of the case.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
9  Her merit in being gifted by Nature with strength and courage was fully appreciated by the Miss Bertrams; her delight in riding was like their own; her early excellence in it was like their own, and they had great pleasure in praising it.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  Here is a young man of sense, of character, of temper, of manners, and of fortune, exceedingly attached to you, and seeking your hand in the most handsome and disinterested way; and let me tell you, Fanny, that you may live eighteen years longer in the world without being addressed by a man of half Mr. Crawford's estate, or a tenth part of his merits.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII