The Female Reader: A Facsimile ReproductionScholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1980 - 394 pages The first educational anthology published by a woman, for & about women. Displays Wollstonecraft's literary eclecticism, early interest in education, & hitherto undocumented religious orientation. |
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... fhould feem to intimate that we fhould labour to render ourfelves excellent . Very few are fuch abfolute idiots as not to be able to become at leaft decent , if not eminent , in their feveral stations , by unwearied and keen application ...
... fhould feem to intimate that we fhould labour to render ourfelves excellent . Very few are fuch abfolute idiots as not to be able to become at leaft decent , if not eminent , in their feveral stations , by unwearied and keen application ...
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... fhould never do him any favour , nay , though fhe fhould never know who did her fuch fervice , fuch a mighty heroic bufinefs ? Ind . Certainly ! I fhould think he must be a man of an uncommon mould . Bev . Dear Madam , why fo ? ' tis ...
... fhould never do him any favour , nay , though fhe fhould never know who did her fuch fervice , fuch a mighty heroic bufinefs ? Ind . Certainly ! I fhould think he must be a man of an uncommon mould . Bev . Dear Madam , why fo ? ' tis ...
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... fhould be constantly difcountenanced , efpecially in one's own household ; and that the fober , honeft , and induftrious , should be fure of finding encouragement and reward in the houses of those who maintain refpectable characters ...
... fhould be constantly difcountenanced , efpecially in one's own household ; and that the fober , honeft , and induftrious , should be fure of finding encouragement and reward in the houses of those who maintain refpectable characters ...
Contents
TO FEMALES | 1 |
BOOK I | 1 |
The Importance of Religion to Minds of Senfibility Mirror | 9 |
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