1. The 'Profound Way' of the world gifts each mortal innate profound veins which allow them to Cultivation profound strength

2. In Congreve's "The Way of the World," an exasperated Lady Wishfort bursts out, "Go lie down and sleep, you sot, or as I'm a person, I'll have you Bastinadoed with broomsticks." Recommended on

3. The Way of the World, with its unique combination of narrative theory and social history, interprets the Bildungsroman as the great cultural mediator of nineteenth-century Europe: a form which explores the many strange compromises between revolution and restoration, economic take-off and aesthetic pleasure, individual autonomy and social normality.