 | History - 1781 - 732 pages
...their claims of fuperiority, they have ulually allowed the Ja-iies the poffeffion of a delicate talie in the improvement and perception of all kinds of beauty. The literary education of women ought indiipuiably to be varied according to their fortunes, and their txp-flations. Much refinement, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Education - 1785 - 360 pages
...their claims of fuperiority they have ufually allowed the ladies the pofleff;on of a delicate tafte in the improvement and perception of all kinds of beauty *. The literary education of women ousht indifputably to be varied according to their fortunes and their expectations. Much refinement,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1788 - 762 pages
...their claims of fuperiority, they have ufually allowed the ladiVs the poffeffion of a delicate talle in the improvement and perception of all kinds of...to be varied according to their fortunes, and their expeebtions. Much refirieruent, and a talle for books, will injure her, whofe time, from prudential... | |
 | English literature - 1782 - 682 pages
...allowed the hdies the poilVffion of a delicate talle in the improvement and perception of all kind« of beauty. The literary education of women ought indifputably...to be varied, according to their fortunes and their expectation's. Much refinement, and a tafte for books, will injure her whofe time, from prudential... | |
 | 1793 - 738 pages
...their claims of fuperiority, they have ufually allowed the ladies the poffefiion of a delicate tafte in the improvement and perception of all kinds of beauty. " The literary education of women ought indifputablv to be varied according to their fortunes, and their expectations. Much refinement, aud... | |
 | Mrs. Pilkington (Mary) - Conduct of life - 1799 - 274 pages
...duty in it, by having employed her time from fix to fixteen in the cultivation of her underftanding. The literary education of women ought indifputably to be varied according to their forturies and expectations. Much refinement, and too great tafte for reading, will injure her whofe... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 546 pages
...their claims of superiority, they have usually allowed the ladies the possession of a delicate taste in the improvement and perception of all kinds of beauty. The literary education of women ought indisputably to fee varied according to their fortunes and their expectations. Much refinement and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 396 pages
...and perception of all kinds of beauty and grace. The literary education of women ought indisputably to be varied according to their fortunes and their expectations. Much refinement, and a tastefor books, will injure her, whose time, from prudential motives, must be entirely engrossed by... | |
 | English literature - 1782 - 774 pages
...their claims ot'fuperiority, they have ufually allowed the ladies the pofleflion of a delicate tafte in the improvement and perception of all kinds of...literary education of women ought indifputably to he varied, according to their fortunes and their expeditions. Much refinement, and a tafte for bunks,... | |
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The ladies themfelves, and their inftructors, want no directions in matters of external ornament, the end of which is to pleafe on intuition. However arrogant the men have been in their claims of fuperiority, they have ufually allowed the ladies the pofTeffion... 