Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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
Full view - About this book

Problems of the Family

Willystine Goodsell - 1928 - 496 pages
...Hartford colony had lost her mind "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...
Full view - About this book

The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Volume 12

William Roscoe Thayer - 1904 - 790 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...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...
Full view - About this book

A Cyclopedia of Education, Volume 2

Paul Monroe - 1911 - 784 pages
...read (act of 1642); but women should (Governor Winthrop) attend to " household affairs " and not " meddle in such things as are proper for men whose minds are stronger." These doctrines r, 'Kir/tx Borough, whereis я i:r¿: >iHc«ñ«i'ñt Нсагс'рпфег doctrines...
Full view - About this book

American Colonial Prose: John Smith to Thomas Jefferson

Mary Ann Radzinowicz - 1984 - 300 pages
...journal of the nervous breakdown of the wife of Governor Hopkins of Connecticut, if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to...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...
Limited preview - About this book

Growing Up Female in America: Ten Lives

Eve Merriam - 1987 - 328 pages
...observation in 1 640: husbande was loath to grieve hir; but he saw his error when it was too late. For if she had attended to her household affairs, and such things as belong to woman, and not gone out of hir way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men whose...
Limited preview - About this book

Eloquence in an Electronic Age: The Transformation of Political Speechmaking

Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1988 - 316 pages
...reading and writing and had written many books." Her wits might have been spared had she "attended her household affairs and such things as belong to...things as are proper for men whose minds are stronger." 19 Hysteria, a disease peculiar to women, was first identif1ed by Hippocrates who drew its name from...
Limited preview - About this book

Literature in America: An Illustrated History

Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 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...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...
Limited preview - About this book

Women of the Renaissance

Margaret L. King - 2008 - 351 pages
...governor of Connecticut had gone mad from delving into problems of theology: "For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to...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...
Limited preview - About this book

Worldly Saints: The Puritans as They Really Were

Leland Ryken - 1990 - 306 pages
...read too much and dabbled in intellectual matters where she had no business: For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way ... to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her...
Limited preview - About this book

John Winthrop's World: History as a Story, the Story as History

James G. Moseley - 1992 - 206 pages
...her, was loath to grieve her; but he saw his errour, when it was too late. For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to...things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger &c. she had kept her wits, and might have improved upon them usefully and honourably in the place God...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF