 ... you for a secretary when your health or affairs make it troublesome to you to write yourself, and custom will make it an agreeable amusement to her. She cannot have too many for that station of life which will probably be her fate. The ultimate end...  The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Page 163by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1837 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Authors, English - 1805 - 296 pages
...life which will probably be her fate. The ultimate end of VOL. IY. M your education Was to make yott a good wife (and I have the comfort to hear that you are one): hers ought to be, to make heir happy in a Virgin state. I will hot say it is happier; but it is undoubtedly safer than any marriage.... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 346 pages
...cannot have too many for that station of life which will probably be her fate. The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife (and I have the comfort to hear that yon are one) ; hers ought to be, to make her happy in a virgin state. I will not say it is happier... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...end of your education was to muke you a good wife — and I have the comfort to bearttat ои иге , our loss and shame will be the greater, when our stock comes to a severe s a happier, but it is undoubtedly safer than any marriage. In n lottery, when; tlicre is— at the lowest... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...can not have too many for that station of life which will probably be her fate. The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife (and I...computation) ten thousand blanks to a prize, it is the most prndent choice not to venture. I have always been so thoroughly persuaded of this truth, that, notwithstanding... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...cannot have too many for that station of life which will probably be her fate. The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife, (and I...safer than any marriage. In a lottery, where there is fat the lowest computation) ten thousand blanks to a prize, it is the most prudent choice not to venture.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...cannot have too many for that station of life which will probably be her fate. The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife, (and I have the comfort to hear thai you are one ;) hers ought to be to make her happy in a virgin state. I will not say it is happier,... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...cannot have too many for that station of life which will probably be her fate. The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife (and I...(at the lowest computation) ten thousand blanks to one prize, it is the most prudent choice not to venture. I have always been so thoroughly persuaded... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...cannot have too many for that station of life which will probably be her fate. The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife, (and I...are one ;) hers ought to be to make her happy in a nrgin state. I will not say it is happier, but it is undoubtedly safei than any marriage. In a lottery,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...which will probably be her fate. The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife — end I have the comfort to hear that you are one ; hers...computation— ten thousand blanks to a prize, it is the most prndent choice not to venture. I have alwave been so thoroughly persnadfd of this truih, that, notwithstanding... | |
 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - 1890 - 310 pages
...cannot have too many for that station of life which will probably be her fate. The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife (and I...safer than any marriage. In a lottery where there are (at the lowest computation) ten thousand blanks to a prize, it is the most prudent choice not to... | |
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