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1  If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  She was persuaded to believe the engagement a wrong thing: indiscreet, improper, hardly capable of success, and not deserving it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
3  There was nothing less for Lady Russell to do, than to admit that she had been pretty completely wrong, and to take up a new set of opinions and of hopes.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
4  Captain Benwick had been seen flying by their house, with a countenance which showed something to be wrong; and they had set off immediately, informed and directed as they passed, towards the spot.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
5  If Mrs Clay were a very beautiful woman, I grant you, it might be wrong to have her so much with me; not that anything in the world, I am sure, would induce my father to make a degrading match, but he might be rendered unhappy.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
6  I have been thinking over the past, and trying impartially to judge of the right and wrong, I mean with regard to myself; and I must believe that I was right, much as I suffered from it, that I was perfectly right in being guided by the friend whom you will love better than you do now.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
7  So far all was perfectly right; but Lady Russell was almost startled by the wrong of one part of the Kellynch Hall plan, when it burst on her, which was, Mrs Clay's being engaged to go to Bath with Sir Walter and Elizabeth, as a most important and valuable assistant to the latter in all the business before her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5