| Education - 1803 - 456 pages
...no opportunity of improving it, and of cultivating in yourself the relish of such pleasures as will not interfere with a rational scheme of life, nor...dissipation, with all its attendant evils of vanity and luxury.—Chapone. I am very desirous my children should excel in drawing; for it is a pursuit adapted... | |
| Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - Conduct of life - 1807 - 252 pages
...no opportunity of improving it, and of cultivating in yourself the relish of such pleasures as will not interfere with a rational scheme of life, nor...and luxury. As to the learned languages, though I re. spect the abilities and application of those ladies, who have attained them, and who make a modest... | |
| Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - Conduct of life - 1809 - 350 pages
...no opportunity of improving it, and of cultivating in yourself the relish of such pleasures, as will not interfere with a rational scheme of life, nor...all its attendant evils of vanity and luxury. As to thc learned languages, though I respect the abilities and apphcation of those ladies, who have attained... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 322 pages
...op. portunity of improving it, and of cultivating in yourself the relish of such pleasures as will not interfere with a rational scheme of life, nor...learned languages, though I respect the abilities and applicatiou of those ladies who have attained them, and who make a modest and proper use of them, yet... | |
| Hester Chapone - 1821 - 358 pages
...no opportunity of improving it, and of cultivating in yourself the relish of such pleasures as will not interfere with a rational scheme of life, nor...woman, who is not strongly impelled by a particular genius, to engage in such studies. The labour and time which they require are generally incompatible... | |
| Hester Chapone - 1829 - 206 pages
...no opportunity of improving it, and of cultivating in yourself the relish of such pleasures as will not interfere with a rational scheme of life, nor...woman who is not strongly impelled by a particular genius — to engage in such studies. The labour and time which they require are generally incompatible... | |
| John Gregory - 1868 - 262 pages
...no opportunity of improving it, and of cultivating in yourself the relish of such pleasures as will not interfere with a rational scheme of life, nor...woman who is not strongly impelled by a particular genius, to engage in such studies. The labour and time which they require are generally incompatible... | |
| Georgiana Hill - Women - 1896 - 384 pages
...affairs of Europe." Even Mrs. Chapone deprecates the study of the classics by women. She writes : — " As to the learned languages, though I respect the...advise you or any other woman who is not strongly influenced by a particular genius — to engage in such studies. The labour and time which they require... | |
| George Paston - England - 1902 - 394 pages
...impunity, but even she knows where to draw the line. "As to the learned languages," she observes, " though I respect the abilities and application of those ladies who have mastered them, and make a proper use of them, yet I would by no means advise you, or any other woman... | |
| English periodicals - 1904 - 636 pages
...learned languages," she says, addressing the niece for whose direction the book was originally written, " though I respect the abilities and application of...woman who is not strongly impelled by a particular genius — to engage in such studies. . . . The danger of pedantry and VoL. ccxcvi. No. 2082. TT presumption... | |
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