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" Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company. — But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous... "
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral ... - Page 107
by Mary Wollstonecraft - 1833 - 214 pages
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The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 4

1774 - 846 pages
...reft of the company. But, if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound fecret, efpeciall'y from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and cultivated understanding. A man of real genius and candor is far fuperior to this meannefs. But fuch...
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The Monthly Miscellany for ..., Volume 2

1774 - 428 pages
...reft of the company j but if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound fecrct, efpecially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and...woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding. A man of real genius and candour is far fuperior to this meannefs ; but fuch a one will feldom fall...
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Memoirs of the First Forty-five Years of the Life of James Lackington, the ...

James Lackington - 1791 - 366 pages
...'advice to his daughters : " If you happen (fays he) to have any learning, keep it a profound fecrer, especially from the men, who generally look with a...jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts." Upon my life, the men are fuch odd fellows, They're even grown of female learri.:g jealous ; Thele...
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The Lady's Preceptor: Or, a Series of Instructive and Pleasing Exercises in ...

Mr. Cresswick - 1792 - 452 pages
...reft of the company. — But if you happen to have any leanting, keep it a profound fecret, efpecially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and cultivated underftanding. A man of real genius and candour is far Superior to this meannefs; but fuch...
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Angelica's Ladies Library; Or, Parents and Guardians Present. With Eight ...

1794 - 470 pages
...'reft of the company. But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound fecret, efpecially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and...malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated underftanding. A man of real genius and candour is far fuperior,to this meannefs; but fuch a one will...
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Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington ...

James Lackington - 1794 - 346 pages
...daughters i '' lf you happen (fays he) to have any learning, keep it a profound fecret, efpecially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts." Upon my life, the men are fuch odd fellows, They're even grown of iemale learning jealous l Thefe trtigofy...
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Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington, the ...

James Lackington - 1795 - 562 pages
...daughters ; *' If you happen, fays he, to have any learning, keep it a profound fecret, efpecially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts." My God, what fort of men muft thefe be ; and what degrading ideas muft they have of women. Butler,...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political ..., Volume 1

Mary Wollstonecraft - 1796 - 504 pages
...teach them ; or, of what ufe will it be ? how to employ it. ' keep it a profound fecret, efpecially from * the men, who generally look with a jealous...eye on a woman of great ' parts, and a cultivated underftanding.' If men of real merit, as he afterwards obferves, be fuperior to this meannefs, where...
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A father's legacy to his daughers

John Gregory - 1805 - 80 pages
...reft of the company. But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound fecret, efpecially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a tultivated underftandiiig. A man of real genius and candour is far fuperior to this meannefs. But fi,ch...
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Letters on the Improvement of the Mind Addressed to a Lady and a Father's ...

Mrs. Chapone (Hester), John Gregory - 1808 - 210 pages
...your good xrii.. . It will he thonght you assume a superiority over the rest of the company.— But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound...who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye ou a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding. A man of real genins and candour is far superior...
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