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Page 68
... pride and vanity . Indeed , Johnson observes in the Idler no . 31 , " pride has of all human vices the widest dominion , appears in the greatest multiplicity of forms , and lies hid under the greatest variety of disguises " ( Works , II ...
... pride and vanity . Indeed , Johnson observes in the Idler no . 31 , " pride has of all human vices the widest dominion , appears in the greatest multiplicity of forms , and lies hid under the greatest variety of disguises " ( Works , II ...
Page 69
... pride are different things , though the words are often used synonimously . A person may be proud without being vain . Pride relates more to our opinion of our- selves , vanity to what we would have others think of us . " ( PP , 20 ) An ...
... pride are different things , though the words are often used synonimously . A person may be proud without being vain . Pride relates more to our opinion of our- selves , vanity to what we would have others think of us . " ( PP , 20 ) An ...
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... pride which is poten- tially as menacing as Emma's . The clearest moral consequence of Elizabeth's pride is her lack of candor . " Candour " does not mean today what it signified in the eighteenth century . It did not mean " honesty in ...
... pride which is poten- tially as menacing as Emma's . The clearest moral consequence of Elizabeth's pride is her lack of candor . " Candour " does not mean today what it signified in the eighteenth century . It did not mean " honesty in ...
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