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1  It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  Lady Russell was now perfectly decided in her opinion of Mr Elliot.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
3  Hitherto there had been but one opinion of Captain Wentworth among the Musgroves and their dependencies.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
4  Everything united in him; good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world, and a warm heart.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
5  I found them most intimate friends; and I, too, became excessively pleased with Mr Elliot, and entertained the highest opinion of him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
6  They are not at all nice children, in my opinion; but Mrs Musgrove seems to like them quite as well, if not better, than her grandchildren.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
7  Upon my word," said she, "I should not have supposed that my opinion of any one could have admitted of such difference of conjecture, steady and matter of fact as I may call myself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
8  Anne had not wanted this visit to Uppercross, to learn that a removal from one set of people to another, though at a distance of only three miles, will often include a total change of conversation, opinion, and idea.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
9  He could refer Sir Walter to all who knew him; and certainly, the pains he had been taking on this, the first opportunity of reconciliation, to be restored to the footing of a relation and heir-presumptive, was a strong proof of his opinions on the subject.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
10  They knew not each other's opinion, either its constancy or its change, on the one leading point of Anne's conduct, for the subject was never alluded to; but Anne, at seven-and-twenty, thought very differently from what she had been made to think at nineteen.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
11  He had strong feelings of family attachment and family honour, without pride or weakness; he lived with the liberality of a man of fortune, without display; he judged for himself in everything essential, without defying public opinion in any point of worldly decorum.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
12  Mrs Harville's giving it as her opinion that her husband would have quite walking enough by the time he reached home, determined the direction of all the party in what was to be their last walk; they would accompany them to their door, and then return and set off themselves.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
13  Anne wondered whether it ever occurred to him now, to question the justness of his own previous opinion as to the universal felicity and advantage of firmness of character; and whether it might not strike him that, like all other qualities of the mind, it should have its proportions and limits.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
14  Young and gentle as she was, it might yet have been possible to withstand her father's ill-will, though unsoftened by one kind word or look on the part of her sister; but Lady Russell, whom she had always loved and relied on, could not, with such steadiness of opinion, and such tenderness of manner, be continually advising her in vain.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
15  Lady Russell confessed she had expected something better; but yet "it was an acquaintance worth having;" and when Anne ventured to speak her opinion of them to Mr Elliot, he agreed to their being nothing in themselves, but still maintained that, as a family connexion, as good company, as those who would collect good company around them, they had their value.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
16  As soon as he could, he began to talk to her of Lyme, wanting to compare opinions respecting the place, but especially wanting to speak of the circumstance of their happening to be guests in the same inn at the same time; to give his own route, understand something of hers, and regret that he should have lost such an opportunity of paying his respects to her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
17  The belief of being prudent, and self-denying, principally for his advantage, was her chief consolation, under the misery of a parting, a final parting; and every consolation was required, for she had to encounter all the additional pain of opinions, on his side, totally unconvinced and unbending, and of his feeling himself ill used by so forced a relinquishment.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
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