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" For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them... "
The Second Church in Boston: Commemorative Services Held on the Completion ... - Page 84
by Second Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1900 - 206 pages
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A Social History of the American Family from Colonial Times to the ..., Volume 1

Arthur Wallace Calhoun - 1917 - 356 pages
...Connecticut had gone insane "by occasion of giving herself wholly to reading and writing." Had she "not gone out of her way and calling to meddle in...things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had...
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Shelburne Essays: A New England group and others

Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 314 pages
...of her, was loath to grieve her; but he saw his error, when it was too late. For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to...and calling to meddle in such things as are proper to men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits." I do not know by what stages this learned...
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A New England Group and Others: Shelburne Essays, Eleventh Series

Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 518 pages
...of her, was loath to grieve her; but he saw his error, when it was too late. For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to...and calling to meddle in such things as are proper to men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits." I do not know by what stages this learned...
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Shelburne Essays: A New England group and others

Paul Elmer More - 1921 - 316 pages
...of her, was loath to grieve her; but he saw his error, when it was too late. For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to...and calling to meddle in such things as are proper to men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits." I do not know by what stages this learned...
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Womans̓ Life in Colonial Days

Carl Holliday - 1922 - 350 pages
...years, by occasion of her giving herself wholly to reading and writing, and had written many books. If she had attended to her household affairs, and such...things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had...
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American Literature: A Study of the Men and the Books that in the Earlier ...

William Joseph Long - 1923 - 570 pages
...loving and tender of her, was loath to grieve her ; but. he saw his error when it was too late. For if she had attended to her household affairs, and such...things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had...
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American Poetry

Alban Bertram De Mille - 1923 - 552 pages
...by occasion of her giving herself wholly to reading and writing, and had written many books .... If she had attended to her household affairs, and such...things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way to meddle with such things as are proper to men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits...
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Colonial Women of Affairs: A Study of Women in Business and the Professions ...

Elisabeth Williams Anthony Dexter, Elisabeth Anthony Dexter - 1924 - 286 pages
...of her, was loth to grieve her; but he saw his error when it was too late. For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way to meddle with such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her...
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Secondary Education

Aubrey Augustus Douglass - 1927 - 702 pages
...the sterner sex. As Governor Winthrop expressed it, women should attend to household affairs and not "meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger." However, some girls did receive educational advantages, although they were usually taught at home....
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The Rise of American Civilization, Volume 1

Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 pages
...Governor Winthrop declared, were expected to stick to household matters and to refrain from meddling "in such things as are proper for men whose minds are stronger." § If schools confined their students rather closely to the classical and theological routine, shopkeepers...
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