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 | Geraldine Edith Mitton - Biography & Autobiography - 1905 - 392 pages
...pen of a sister author, and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though, to the larger and more trifling part of the...there is a portion of them too reasonable, and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance." The rattle-pate Miss Thorpe... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1906 - 1020 pages
...pen of a sister author ; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though, to the larger and more trifling part of the...themselves, to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. But Catherine did not know her own advantages — did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate... | |
 | William Henry Helm - Literary Criticism - 1909 - 272 pages
...pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though, to the larger and more trifling part of the...themselves, to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. But Catherine did not know her own advantages — did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1911 - 362 pages
...pen of a sister author ; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though, to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great_enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable, and too wellinformed... | |
 | American literature - 1918 - 430 pages
...pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the...to desire anything more in woman than ignorance." This sweeping and severe stricture upon masculine mankind can not be paralleled, even in tone, in the... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1922 - 372 pages
...pen of a sister author, and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though, to the larger and more trifling part of the...well-informed themselves, to desire anything more in a woman than ignorance." Even Mr. Knightley and Darcy, however, cannot entirely avoid a didactic tone... | |
 | G. J. Barker-Benfield - History - 1992 - 554 pages
...observations), that "though to the larger and more Women and Individualism 349 trifling part of the male sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement...there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves, to desire anything more in a woman than ignorance." Edgeworth, too, writing... | |
 | Audrey Bilger - Dissenters in literature - 1998 - 268 pages
...comments, the narrator drives her point home with a witty twist: "I will only add in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the...charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and well informed themselves to desire any thing more in woman than ignorance" (111). Wollstonecraft herself... | |
 | Ronald Shusterman - English literature - 2000 - 388 pages
...pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, injustice to men, that though, to the larger and more trifling part of the...well-informed themselves, to desire anything more in a woman than ignorance. But Catherine did not know her own advantages — did not know that a good-looking... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Social Science - 1869 - 248 pages
...of a sister author, — and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the...well-informed themselves, to desire anything more in a woman than ignorance. (Chapter 14) 2. Charles Dickens (1812-70), Oliver Twist (1837-38) "That is... | |
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