 | Railway readings - 1847 - 172 pages
...even when their last memorial is over, their ruins and vestiges are regarded with pious affection. The affectation charged upon female knowledge is best...and inconvenience which proceed from neglecting it. If you educate women to attend to dignified and important subjects, you are multiplying beyond measure... | |
 | English literature - 1851 - 612 pages
...women should be lavished upon trifles, when nature has made it capable of higher and better things, we profess ourselves not able to understand. The affectation...the gentleness and elegance of women is the natural conserjuenco of that desire to please, which is productive of the greatest part of civilisation and... | |
 | 1851 - 622 pages
...women should be lavished upon trifles, when nature has made it capable of higher and better things, we profess ourselves not able to understand. The affectation...from neglecting it. For the care of children, nature lias made a direct and powerful provision ; and the gentleness and elegance of women is the natural... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 498 pages
...women should be lavished upon trifles, when nature has made it capable of higher and better things, we profess ourselves not able to understand. The affectation...secured by the ruin, disgrace, and inconvenience which proceeds from neglecting it. For the care of children, nature has made a direct and powerful provision... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1852 - 900 pages
...women should be lavished upon trifles, when nature has made it capable of higher and better things, we profess ourselves not able to understand. The affectation...secured by the ruin, disgrace, and inconvenience which proceeds from neglecting it. For the care of children, nature has made a direct and powerful provision... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - English essays - 1854 - 296 pages
...women should be lavished upon trifles, when nature has made it capable of better and higher things, we profess ourselves not able to understand. The affectation...female knowledge is best cured by making that knowledge i ; J o O more general: and the economy devolved upon women is best secured by the ruin, disgrace,... | |
 | Women - 1858 - 444 pages
...women should be lavished upon trifles, when nature has made it capable of higher and better things, we profess ourselves not able to understand. The affectation...secured by the ruin, disgrace, and inconvenience which proceeds from neglecting it. For the care of children nature has made a direct and powerful provision... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - 1360 pages
...women should be lavished upon trifles, when nature has made it capable of higher and Setter things, we profess ourselves not able to understand. The affectation...secured by the ruin, disgrace, and inconvenience which proceeds from neglecting it. For the care of children, nature has made a direct and powerful provision... | |
 | Louis Aimé Martin - 1860 - 412 pages
...women should be lavished upon trifles when nature has made it capable of higher and better things, we profess ourselves not able to understand. The affectation...best cured by making that knowledge more general. For the care of children, nature has made a direct and powerful provision, and the gentleness and elegance... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Christian ethics - 1870 - 842 pages
...should be lavished upon trifles, when nature has made it capable of higher and better thing.«, wo profess ourselves not able to understand. The affectation...secured by the ruin, disgrace, and inconvenience which proceeds from neglecting it. For the care of children, nature has made a direct and powerful provision;... | |
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... why the disproportion in knowledge between the two sexes should be so great, when the inequality in natural talents is so small; or why the understanding of women should be lavished upon trifles, when nature has made it capable of higher and better... 
