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"After all, are we not a little in the machine style, not to be able to withdraw our love when our esteem is at an end? I suppose one might find a philosophical reason for this in Newton's Laws of Attraction. The heart of a woman does, I imagine, naturally gravitate towards a handsome, well-dressed, well-bred fellow, without enquiry into his mental qualities. Nay, as to that, do not let me be partial to you odious men; you have as little taste for mere internal charms as the lightest coquette in town. You talk sometimes of the beauties of the mind; but I should be glad, as somebody has said very well, to see one you of in love with a mind of threescore.
(II, p. 92)",2013-06-27 19:31:40 UTC,"""The heart of a woman does, I imagine, naturally gravitate towards a handsome, well-dressed, well-bred fellow, without enquiry into his mental qualities.""",2005-04-25 00:00:00 UTC,"Vol. 2, Letter 13",Newtonianism,,"",INTEREST,Searching in HDIS (Prose),13961,5184
"The instant I had uttered these words, I felt what it was that I had done. There was a magnetical sympathy between me and my patron, so that their effect was not sooner produced upon him, than my own mind reproached me with the inhumanity of the allusion. Our confusion was mutual. The blood forsook at once the transparent complexion of Mr. Falkland, and then ruched back again with rapidity and fierceness. I dared not utter a word, lest I should commit a new error worse than that into which I had just fallen. After a short, but severe struggle to continue the conversation, Mr. Falkland began with trepidation, but afterwards became calmer:--
(p. 186)",2009-09-14 19:43:59 UTC,"""There was a magnetical sympathy between me and my patron""",2005-05-09 00:00:00 UTC,"",Magnetism,,Metal,"•Note the momentary transparency of Falkland. On the page that follows Falkland looks at Caleb ""as if he would see my very soul"" (187)",Reading,15563,5826
"But whatever were Julia's real sensations, her conduct was irreproachable. Her ideas of rectitude were of the most exalted kind; and no pain would have been so insufferable to her pure and feeling bosom, as the conciousness of having in the smallest degree deviated from those principles of delicacy, truth, integrity, and honour, which were not only the inviolable sentiments of her soul, but the stedfast rules of her actions. If her heart was not quite at peace, its exquisite sensibility was corrected by the influence of reason; as the quivering needle, though subject to some variations, still tends to one fixed point.
(I.xi, p. 128)",2013-08-16 06:03:38 UTC,"""If her heart was not quite at peace, its exquisite sensibility was corrected by the influence of reason; as the quivering needle, though subject to some variations, still tends to one fixed point.""",2013-08-16 06:03:38 UTC,"Vol. I, Chap. xi","",,Metal,"",Searching in ECCO-TCP,22189,7591
"""Far be it from me,"" said Lord Orville, ""to dispute the magnetic power of beauty, which irresistibly draws and attracts whatever has soul and sympathy: and I am happy to acknowledge, that though we have now no gods to occupy a mansion professedly built for them, yet we have secured their better halves, for we have goddesses to whom we all most willingly bow down."" And then, with a very droll air, he made a profound reverence to the ladies.
(I, p. 142)",2014-07-23 19:42:33 UTC,"""Far be it from me,"" said Lord Orville, ""to dispute the magnetic power of beauty, which irresistibly draws and attracts whatever has soul and sympathy.""",2014-07-23 19:42:33 UTC,"","",,"","",Searching ECCO-TCP,24217,5507