{"id":41150,"date":"2019-07-16T18:46:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T22:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=41150"},"modified":"2019-07-16T18:46:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T22:46:06","slug":"what-man-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=41150","title":{"rendered":"What man is this?"},"content":{"rendered":"

[He] is a man without heart or conscience; a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself; who, for his own interest or ease, would be guilty of any cruelty, or any treachery, that could be perpetrated without risk of his general character. He has no feeling for others. Those whom he has been the chief cause of leading into ruin, he can neglect and desert without the smallest compunction. He is totally beyond the reach of any sentiment of justice or compassion. Oh! he is black at heart, hollow and black!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, but no. This is Jane Austen’s description of one of her characters, William Elliot, in her last novel, Persuasion<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[He] is a man without heart or conscience; a designing, wary, cold-blooded being, who thinks only of himself; who, for his own interest or ease, would be guilty of any cruelty, or any treachery, that could be perpetrated without risk … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1175,2902],"tags":[3428,4717,1172],"class_list":["post-41150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-facts-of-life","category-trump-stuff","tag-jane-austen","tag-persuasion","tag-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t