...contains upon various characters, ways, or excentricities of human life," Austen proclaims more loudly its "most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties." Again, where Burney claims that the novel is "a picture of supposed, but natural and probable human...

...Camilla, or Belinda;" or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature,...its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.21 A work demanding "the greatest powers...