You might not give Emma such a complete education as your powers would seem to promise; but you were receiving a very good education from her, on the very material matrimonial point of submitting your own will, and doing as you were bid...
Emma, Volume 1, Chapter 5
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Emma é um romance de Jane Austen, que foi publicado pela 1ª vez em dezembro de 1815. Assim como em seus outros romances, Austen relata as dificuldades das mulheres inglesas no início do século XIX, criando através de seus personagens uma comédia de costumes.
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her
Emma, Volume 1, Chapter 1
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Ah! my poor dear child, the truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be. It is a dreadful thing to have you forced to live there! so far off!-- and the air so bad!
Emma, Volume 1, Chapter 12
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Her daughter enjoyed a most uncommon degree of popularity for a woman neither young, handsome, rich, nor married. Miss Bates stood in the very worst predicament in the world for having much of the public favour; and she had no intellectual superiority to make atonement to herself, or frighten those who might hate her into outward respect. She had never boasted either beauty or cleverness.
Emma, Volume 1, Chapter 3
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