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Quotation from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
“Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you”
Northanger Abbey, Vol. II, Ch. 9 (1817 first edition)
Henry's rebuke after discovering that Catherine suspected his father of harming his mother.
Citation: "Remember that we are English, that we are Christians. Consult your own understanding, your own sense of the probable, your own observation of what is passing around you" — Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Vol. II, Ch. 9 (1817 first edition). (id northanger-abbey-q4)
Portrait: CassandraAusten-JaneAusten(c.1810) hires, Cassandra Austen, Public domain.
