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Sida 47 - I would send her at nine years old, to a boarding school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice. Then, Sir, she should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts ;—and as she grew up I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries; —but above all, Sir
Sida 47 - a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman; for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning—neither would it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments.—But, Sir
Sida 47 - she should be mistress of orthodoxy, that she might not misspell, and mispronounce words so shamefully as girls usually do; and likewise that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying. This, Sir
Sida 45 - but not the good, the enthusiastic, the literary. Such a man's conversation must at times be on subjects of science and philosophy, of which I know nothing; or at least be occasionally abundant in quotations and allusions which a woman who, like me, knows only her own
Sida 45 - Teaching was, of course, the first thing that suggested itself. If Miss Matty could teach children anything, it would throw her among the little elves in whom her soul delighted. I ran over her accomplishments. Once upon a time I had heard her say she could play "Ah! vous
Sida 32 - neither the intricacies of debate nor the oratorical artifices of action and delivery are of the least practical use, if indeed they are not positively unbecoming. Rhetoric in all its forms— public discussion, forensic argument, logical fence and the like—lies absolutely outside the province of woman.
Sida 46 - compliment she paid to her correspondent; and words that she would spell quite correctly in her letters to me became perfect enigmas when she wrote to my father. "No! there was nothing she could teach to the rising generation of Cranford.
Sida 73 - It was her business, her duty, the thing she came into the world to do, and she did it,—she unbent her mind afterwards over a book.
Sida 97 - In twice two hundred years, the Bear The Crescent will assail. But if the Cock and Bull unite The Bear will not prevail. In twice ten years again Let Islam know and fear, The Cross shall stand, The Crescent wane, dissolve and disappear.
Sida 39 - woman is sweetness. Being made to obey an imperfect being like man, often so full of vices, and always so full of faults, she must early learn to submit even to injustice, and to bear the misdeeds of a husband without complaining." "She must never scold.

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