I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and impertinence, while I am... The American Journal of Education - Stran 427uredili: - 1876Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Walter Wilson - 1830 - 562 strani
...Foe suggests an institution for the education of females " We reproach the sex every day," says he, " with folly and impertinence, while I am confident,...guilty of less than ourselves." He complains that the females of his time were taught merely the mechanical parts of knowledge, such as reading, writing,... | |
| Walter Wilson - 1830 - 550 strani
...Foe suggests an institution for the education of females " We reproach the sex every day," says he, " with folly and impertinence, while I am confident,...guilty of less than ourselves." He complains that the females of his time were taught merely the mechanical parts of knowledge, such as reading, writing,... | |
| William Chambers - 1859 - 600 strani
...insert some sentences ¡s 9 on the dignity of woman. ' We reproach the sex every day,' says hi;, ' with folly and impertinence, while I am confident...than ourselves.' He complains that the women of his tune were taught merely the mechanical parts of knowledge — such as reading, writing, and sewing... | |
| John Leaf - 1861 - 500 strani
...us here insert some sentences on the dignity of woman. " We reproach the sex every day," says he, " with folly and impertinence, while I am confident...rational companions ; and he argues that men in the same of society would cat a sorry figure if their education were to be equally neglected. "The soul," he... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1864 - 608 strani
...suggested an institution for the education of females : — " We reproach the sex every day," says he, " with folly and impertinence, while, I am confident,...us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves." In January, 1700-1, appeared De Foe's celebrated poem of "TheTrueborii Englishman." It was composed... | |
| James Parton - 1864 - 668 strani
...says Defoe, in the Essay on Projects, " with folly and impertinence, while, I am confident, had they advantages of education equal to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves." The early Puritans did not encourage the education of girls. Mrs. John Adams wrote, in 17*8: "In this... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1876 - 972 strani
...FOR WOMEN. ' We reproach the sex every day with folly and Impertinence, while I am confident 1 ru I they the advantages of education equal to us, they...parts of knowledge — such as reading, writing, and •owing— instead of being exalted into rational companions; and he argues that 'men in the same... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1881 - 828 strani
...tho вэх every day with folly and impertinence, while I am confidant hod thsy tho advantages oí education equal to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves.' He complains that tho women of his tune were taught тэге!у t'a3 nüeüinlcnl parts of knowledge — such as reading,... | |
| Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 360 strani
...whose opinions on social subjects they disdained. " We reproach the sex every day," wrote Defoe, " with folly and impertinence, while I am confident,...to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves. * * * I cannot think that God ever made them so delicate, so glorious creatures, and furnished them... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1882 - 448 strani
...which grow out of disappointed love. — Henry Taylor. 2541 2542 We reproach the sex every day for folly and impertinence, while I am confident, had...to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves. — De Foe [1676]. 2543 Alas ! coquettes are but too rare. 'T is a career that requires great abilities,... | |
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