 | Susan Howe - 1993 - 212 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 them usefully and honorably in the place God had... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 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 ... in the place God set her. Similar opinions about the necessarily finite... | |
 | Linda Grant De Pauw - 1975 - 244 pages
...wholly to reading and writing and had written many books." The governor felt that "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... | |
 | Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1995 - 298 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...such things as are proper for men whose minds are stronger."59 Hysteria, a disease peculiar to women, was first identified by Hippocrates, who drew its... | |
 | Maria Braden - 1996 - 250 pages
...breakdown of a governor's wife was attributed to her "giving herself wholly to reading and writing. For if she had attended to her household affairs, and such things as belong to women, and not going out of her way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger,... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1146 pages
...of her, was loath to grieve her; but he saw his error, when it was too late. For if she had attended etc., she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had... | |
 | Morton M. Hunt - 418 pages
...writing: "If she had attended her household affairs and such things as belong to women," he wrote, "and not gone out of her way and calling to meddle...things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her wits."10 In Freud's time, two and a half centuries later, most men still had... | |
 | Stephanie Merrim - 1999 - 374 pages
...wholly to reading and writing, and had written many books." He speculated that had she "attended to household affairs, and such things as belong to women,...things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger &c. she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honourably in the place God had... | |
 | Hugh Amory, David D. Hall - 2000 - 676 pages
...which he blamed on "her giving herself wholly to reading and writing. . . . 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."78 But the orthodox clergy had other reasons for defending learnedness... | |
 | Gwen Athene Tarbox - 2000 - 174 pages
...matters of civic or clerical policy. In his journal, John Winthrop wrote: "...if she had attended to household affairs, and such things as belong to women,...things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., (then she might have] kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the... | |
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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... 
