 I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and impertinence, while I am...  The American Journal of Education - Page 427edited by - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Edward Arber - English literature - 1879 - 668 pages
...world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and...to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves. One would wonder, indeed, how it should happen that women are conversible at all ; since they are only... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1887 - 490 pages
...suggested an institution for the education of females : " We reproach the sex every day," says he, " with folly and impertinence, while, I am confident,...us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves." In January, 1700-1, appeared De Foe's celebrated poem of " The True-Born Englishman." It was composed... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - English essays - 1889 - 456 pages
...world, considering us as a civilised and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and...to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves. who slight the sex for their understanding, what is a man (a gentleman, I mean) good for that is taught... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Literary Collections - 1894 - 674 pages
...world, considering us as a civilised and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and...to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves. One would wonder, indeed, how it should happen that women are conversible at all, since they are only... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...world, considering us as a civilised and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and...to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves. One would wonder, indeed, how it should happen that women are conversible at all, since they are only... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...world, considering us as a civilised and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and...to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves. One would wonder, indeed, how it should happen that women are conversible at all, since they are only... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 462 pages
...world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and...to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves. One would wonder indeed how it should happen that women are conversable at all, since they are only... | |
 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and...to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves. One would wonder, indeed, how it should happen that women are conversible at all ; since they are beholden... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 448 pages
...world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and...to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves. One would wonder indeed how it should happen that women are conversable at all, since they are only... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1905 - 508 pages
...World, confidering us as a civil"iz'd and Chriftian Country, that we deny the Advantages "of Learning to Women. We reproach the Sex every Day "with Folly and...of Education equal to us, they would "be guilty of lefs than our f elves. One would wonder "indeed how it fhould happen that Women are convertible "at... | |
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