 If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God Almighty would never have given them capacities ; for he made nothing needless. Besides, I would ask any such what they can see in ignorance that they should think it a necessary...  The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt - Stran 20avtor: Daniel Defoe - 1843Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1917 - 492 strani
...would be guilty of less than ourselves. ... Why then should women be denied the benefit of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions...for He made nothing needless. Besides, I would ask such what they can see in ignorance that they should think it a necessary ornament to a woman? After... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1970 - 446 strani
[ Prikaz vsebine te strani ni dovoljen ] | |
 | 1972 - 444 strani
[ Prikaz vsebine te strani ni dovoljen ] | |
 | Walter G. Secada, Elizabeth Fennema, Lisa Byrd Adajian - 1995 - 380 strani
...of the most barbarous customs in the world that we deny the advantages of learning to women. . . . If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions...the sex, God Almighty would never have given them capacity; for he made nothing needless. (Defoe, 1697, pp. 283—284) Another three centuries have passed... | |
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