 | Jane Austen - Adoptees - 1814 - 318 pages
...train of thought, she soon afterwards added : " If any one faculty of our nature may be called wort wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory....memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient —at others, so bewildered and so weak - — and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1816 - 312 pages
...changes of the human mind !" And following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added : " If any one faculty of our nature may be called more...memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient — at others, so bewildered and so weak — and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1833 - 448 pages
...changes of the human mind !" And following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added : — " If any one faculty of our nature may be called more...memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient : at others, so bewildered and so weak ; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1864 - 446 pages
...changes of the human mind !" And following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added:—"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful...memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient: at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1877 - 426 pages
...of the human mind ! ' And following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added : — ' If any one faculty of our nature may be called more...memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient : at others, so bewildered and so weak ; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control... | |
 | Jane Austen - English literature - 1882 - 438 pages
...of the human mind I ' And following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added : — ' If any one faculty of our nature may be called more...memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient : at others, so bewildered and so weak ; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1892 - 294 pages
...changes of the human mind ! " And following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added : " If any one faculty of our nature may be called more...memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient : at others, so bewildered and so weak ; and at others again, so tyrannic so beyond controul... | |
 | Jane Austen - English fiction - 1892 - 274 pages
...changes of the human mind ! " And following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added: " If any one faculty of our nature may be called more...memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient: at others, so bewildered and so weak ; and at others again, so tyrannic so beyond controul!... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1903 - 416 pages
...changes of the human mind ! " And following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added : " If any one faculty of our nature may be called more...other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retenttve, so serviceable, so obedient : at others, so bewildered and so weak ; and at others again,... | |
 | Jane Austen - England - 1905 - 366 pages
...changes of the human mind ! ' And following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added : ' If any one faculty of our nature may be called more...memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient ; at others, so bewildered and so weak ; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond controul... | |
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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences.... 
