 | Hannah More - Women - 1838 - 534 pages
...best books, not so much to enable her to talk of them, as to bring the improvement which they furnish to the rectification of her principles and the formation of her habits. The great uses of study to a woman are to enable her to regulate her own mind, and to be instrumental to the... | |
 | Hannah More - 1846 - 584 pages
...best hooks, not so much to enable her to talk of them, as to bring the improvement which they furnish, to the rectification of her principles and the formation of her habits. The great uses of study to a woman are to enable her to regulate her own mind, and to be instrumental to the... | |
 | Henry Stretton - Sermons, English - 1848 - 474 pages
...furnish to the rectification of her principles and the formation of lier habits. The great uses of study are to enable her to regulate her own mind, and to be useful to others. " To woman, therefore, whatever be her rank, I would recommend a predominance of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...best books, not so much to enable her to talk of them, as to bring the improvement which they furnish to the rectification of her principles and the formation of her habits. The great uses of study to a woman are to enable her to regulate her own mind, and to be instrumental In the... | |
 | Hannah More - 1852 - 582 pages
...rectifica, tion of her principles and the formation of her habits. The great uses of study to a woman are to enable her to regulate her own mind, and to be instrumental to the good of others. To woman, therefore, whatever be her rank, I would recommend a... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...best books, not so much to enable her to talk of them, as to bring the improvement which they furnish to the rectification of her principles and the formation of her habits. The great uses of study to a woman are to enable her to regulate her own mind, and to be instrumental to the... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 434 pages
...best books, not so much to enable her to talk of them, as to bring the improvement which they furnish to the rectification of her principles and the formation of her habits. The great uses of study to a woman are to enable her to regulate lier own mind, and to be instrumental to the... | |
 | Patricia Demers - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 198 pages
...best books, not so much to enable her to talk of them, as to bring the improvement which they furnish, to the rectification of her principles and the formation of her habits. The great uses of study to woman are to enable her to regulate her own mind, and to be instrumental to the good... | |
 | Richard Price - History - 1999 - 366 pages
...nor in any learned profession; but it is to come out in conduct. The great uses of study to a woman are to enable her to regulate her own mind, and to be instrumental to the good of others. 37 Here was a curious inversion. Men's learning was bookish, otherworldly;... | |
 | Mona Scheuermann - History - 278 pages
...best books, not so much to enable her to talk of them, as to bring the improvement which they furnish, to the rectification of her principles, and the formation of her habits” (11,2). In fact, “That kind of knowledge which is rather fitted for home consumption than foreign... | |
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