 | Myra Reynolds - 1920 - 542 pages
...thing, to pretend the contrary. A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears. To offer to the World the liberal Education...House-tops it will set the whole world in a Flame. These things and worse than these, are commonly talked of, and verily believed by many, who think themselves... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - 1920 - 546 pages
...improvement by Education, as they are. It is lookt upon as a monstrous thing, to pretend the contrary. A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears. To offer to the World the liberal Education of Women is to deface the Image of... | |
 | Matthew Gruenberg Bach - 1922 - 140 pages
...Bathsua Makin, in her work, "An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen" (1673), says: "A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears." (Myra Reynolds: The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760, Boston and New York, 1920, p. 280.) Cf. also... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - 1987 - 196 pages
...collection of essays, pp. 80-91. 3 The extraordinary woman 1. See Grandison, III. 480, and Bathsua Makin, 'A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears', An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen (1675), Augustan Reprint... | |
 | Marilyn L. Williamson - 1990 - 380 pages
...improvement by education, as they are. It is looked upon as a monstrous thing, to pretend the contrary. A learned woman is thought to be a comet, that bodes...make women so high, and men so low, like fire in the housetop, it will set the whole world in flame.39 In The Gentlewoman's Companion: or a Guide to the... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 1995 - 346 pages
...improvement by education, as they are. It is looked upon as a monstrous thing, to pretend the contrary. A learned woman is thought to be a comet, that bodes...is to deface the image of God in man, it will make woman so high, and men so low, like fire in the housetop, it will set the whole world in a flame! These... | |
 | Marina Leslie - 1998 - 228 pages
...what all of Europe could not. Chapter Five Revisiting Utopia in Margaret Cavendish's Blazing World A learned woman is thought to be a comet, that bodes...make women so high, and men so low, like fire in the housetop, it will set the whole world in a flame. — BATHSUA MAKIN, "An Essay to Revive the Antient... | |
 | Frances N. Teague - 1998 - 212 pages
...nor capable of improvement as they are. It is looked on as a monstrous thing to pretend the contrary. A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes...make women so high and men so low. Like fire in the housetop, it will set the whole world in a flame. These things, and worse than these, are commonly... | |
 | Janet A. Kourany - 1997 - 344 pages
...improvement by Education as they are. It is lookt upon as a monstrous thing; to pretend the contrary. A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears."90 A full century later, Samuel Johnson, who in fact did much to encourage the... | |
 | Susan Bordo - 2010 - 368 pages
...philosopher is something uncanny and unnaturaL As Bathsua Makin observed in the seventeenth century: "A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears" (1673, 3). And in the nineteenth century, Proudhon bluntly stated: "The woman... | |
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A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears. To offer to the world the liberal education of women is to deface the image of God in man, it will make women so high, and men so low, like fire in the house-top, it will... 
