10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREPOSSESSINGNESS»
Discover the use of
prepossessingness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prepossessingness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
I will say at once that the only original and quite individual qualities that he
possesses as a writer, are what the ancients called mores, that indescribable
quality not only of meekness and placidity (mite ac placidum), but of
prepossessingness ...
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Emil Julius Trechmann, 1851
2
Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers
Certain ladies I know, who justly, perhaps, pride themselves rather on the
prepossessingness of their minds than of their bodies, denounce steadily the
possibility of love being founded upon so frail a foundation as a mere pretty face
and figure ...
Certain ladies I know, who justly, perhaps, pride themselves rather on the
prepossessingness of their minds than of their bodies, denounce steadily the
possibility of love being founded upon so frail a foundation as a mere pretty face
and figure ...
George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, 1862
4
The Village of Mariendorpt: A Tale
At length a woman appeared, and, after a short parley, the good Bavarian he
spoke, the civility of his manner, and the prepossessingness of his countenance,
(for that he could not disguise,) quickly obtained him admittance. He eatered a ...
5
Liberal Cosmopolitan: Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity
36 Gu acknowledges that, “as Mr. Matthew Arnold points out, the
prepossessingness of the personality ofJesus Christ and the directness and
simplicity of his teachings in the New Testament—all these have gone into the
bones, so to speak, ...
The Christ of Matthew Arnold is strangely and hopelessly made in the image of
Matthew Arnold. His “unerring and consummate felicity,” his “prepossessingness,
” his “sweet reason ableness," his “method,” his “secret”— all these phrases do ...
7
The Contemporary Review
But the more original meaning of epieikes, epieikeia, is that which has an air of
consummate truth and likelihood, the prepossessingness of that which has this
air ; and epieikeia is to be rendered " sweet reasonableness," because that which
...
8
Jane Austen and the Interplay of Character
For that society, with all its prepossessingness and glitter, can be seen to tolerate,
even to encourage, the mediocre. Whether through the selfcongratulatory
arrogance of its leaders, the zeal for ostentation and general striving for elegance
; ...
But the more original meaning of epieikes, epieikeia, is that which has an air of
consummate truth and likelihood, the prepossessingness of that which has this
air; and epieikeia is to be rendered " sweet reasonableness," because that which
...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1876
The Christ of Matthew Arnold is strangely and hopelessly made in the image of
Matthew Arnold. His "unerring and consummate felicity," his "prepossessingness,
" his "sweet reasonableness," his "method," his "secret"— all these phrases do
but ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1910
