Citations:causes


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * The causes were, 1. I was ignorant that this was the work of God upon me. I never thought that, by awakenings for sin, God at first begins the conversion of a sinner. 2.


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * "They have both," said she, "been deceived, I dare say, in some way or other, of which we can form no idea. Interested people have perhaps misrepresented each to the other. It is, in short, impossible for us to conjecture the causes or circumstances which may have alienated them, without actual blame on either side."