The History of Portia: Written by a Lady. ...R. Withy; J. Pottinger; J. Wilkie; and J. Cooke, 1759 |
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... woman never makes a more ridiculous figure , than when the appears to the world in the character of an author ; the male part of the fpecies having ingroffed every branch of learning , as their peculiar province , think they have an ...
... woman never makes a more ridiculous figure , than when the appears to the world in the character of an author ; the male part of the fpecies having ingroffed every branch of learning , as their peculiar province , think they have an ...
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... women are , by them- felves , too frequently thought difficult , if not difagreeable , only because they are obfcure ; and their due cultivation is con- fequently too often remifly attended to , merely because they think they have no ...
... women are , by them- felves , too frequently thought difficult , if not difagreeable , only because they are obfcure ; and their due cultivation is con- fequently too often remifly attended to , merely because they think they have no ...
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... woman's true merit confifts in her being unknown , except amidst the circle of her own im- mediate connections ; for too familiar an intercourfe with the World feldom fails to deftroy that timid foftnefs , that de- licacy of female ...
... woman's true merit confifts in her being unknown , except amidst the circle of her own im- mediate connections ; for too familiar an intercourfe with the World feldom fails to deftroy that timid foftnefs , that de- licacy of female ...
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... woman's fame : a very ingenious gentle- man , who is certainly an exquifite judge of female merit , has already affured us that Our faireft virtues fly from public fight , Domestic worth , that fhuns too ftrong a light . I look upon it ...
... woman's fame : a very ingenious gentle- man , who is certainly an exquifite judge of female merit , has already affured us that Our faireft virtues fly from public fight , Domestic worth , that fhuns too ftrong a light . I look upon it ...
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... women : I had like to have faid , by old women , but that indeed would have been wounding myself a little too deeply . I do not peremptorily take upon me to pronounce that this is the age of wif- dom , because I am apprehenfive that it ...
... women : I had like to have faid , by old women , but that indeed would have been wounding myself a little too deeply . I do not peremptorily take upon me to pronounce that this is the age of wif- dom , because I am apprehenfive that it ...
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