Both Uses of
maxim
in
Mansfield Park
- I shall understand all your ways in time; but, coming down with the true London maxim, that everything is to be got with money, I was a little embarrassed at first by the sturdy independence of your country customs.†
Chpt 6 *
- I was afraid of the bias of those worldly maxims, which she has been too much used to hear.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(maxim) a short saying that expresses a general truth or principle