 A woman well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison ; her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments ; her person is angelic and her conversation heavenly ; she...  The American Journal of Education - Page 427edited by - 1876Full view - About this book
 | James T. Boulton - Literary Collections - 1975 - 304 pages
...Creature, to whom he gave the best Gift either God could bestow, or man receive: And 'tis the sordid'st Piece of Folly and Ingratitude in the world, to withhold...Sex the due Lustre which the advantages of Education gives to the Natural Beauty of their Minds. A Woman well Bred and well Taught, furnish'd with the additional... | |
 | Paula R. Backscheider - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 702 pages
...Finest . . . Part of God's Creation; the Glory of her Master." It is, he continued, "the sordid'st Piece of Folly and Ingratitude in the world, to withhold from the Sex the due Lustre which . . . Education gives."23 He recommended that girls be taught French, Italian, music, dancing, and... | |
 | Mary Astell - History - 2002 - 308 pages
...Creature, to whom he gave the best Gift either God cou'd bestow, or Man receive: And 'tis the most sordid Piece of Folly and Ingratitude in the World, to withhold...Sex the due Lustre which the advantages of Education gives to the Natural Beauty of their Minds. A Woman well Bred and well Taught, furnish 'd with the... | |
 | Frank H. Ellis - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 244 pages
...and sew and read and perhaps to write her name. Defoe argued most eloquently that 'tis the sordid'st Piece of Folly and Ingratitude in the world, to withhold...Sex the due Lustre which the advantages of Education gives to the Natural Beauty of their Minds. A Woman well Bred and well Taught, furnish'd with the additional... | |
 | Brian Griffith - Religion - 2008 - 510 pages
...pride. But for growing numbers of both women and men it grew obvious, as Daniel Defoe wrote in 1697, "a woman well-bred and well-taught, furnished with...knowledge and behavior, is a creature without comparison . . . the finest and most delicate part of God's creation".14 Slowly, an influx of educated women began... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1871 - 984 pages
...cooks, and slaves. A woman well-bred and well-taught, furnished with the additional accompaniments of knowledge and behavior, is a creature without comparison....society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments ; she is n'll softness and sweetness, love, wit, and delight." When the rending was over the Specta tor would... | |
 | John Howard Whitehouse, Richard Warwick Bond, John Bryan Booth - Art - 1905 - 396 pages
...well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional accomplishments of knowledge and behaviour, is a creature without comparison ; her society is the emblem of sublimer enjoyments ; her person is angelic and her conversation heavenly; she is all softness and sweetness, peace, love,... | |
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