 | HODGES SMITH - 1856 - Страниц: 772
...abasement of their brothers who cared for hawks and horses more than hexameters. " It was so very modish, that the fair sex seemed to believe that Greek and Latin added to their charms; and that Plato and Aristotle, untranslated, were frequent ornaments to their closet." The artful, roguish... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - Страниц: 426
...abasement of their brothers, who cared for hawks and horses more than hexameters. " It was so very modish, that the fair sex seemed to believe that Greek and Latin added to their charms ; and that Plato and Aristotle, untranslated, were frequent ornaments to their closet." The artful, roguish... | |
 | Georgiana Hill - 1896 - Страниц: 382
...so productive of learned women as the sixteenth century." " Learning," he says, " was so very modish that the fair sex seemed to believe that Greek and Latin added to their charms, and that Plato and Aristotle untranslated were frequent ornaments of their closets. One would think by... | |
 | George Paston - 1902 - Страниц: 356
...in which learning had been held by her sex more than a century before, when " it was so very modish that the fair sex seemed to believe that Greek and...untranslated were frequent ornaments of their closets." The same lady also published an Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (1706), in which she argues, like... | |
 | Cecil Grant, Norman Hodgson - 1913 - Страниц: 346
...Reflections on Antient and Modern Learning " where he writes of the days when learning " was so very modish that the fair sex seemed to believe that Greek and Latin added to their charms. . . . One would think by the effects that it was a proper way of educating them, since there are no... | |
 | 1915 - Страниц: 494
...Ancient and Modern Learning said of the sixteenth century in England, "Learning was so very modish that the Fair Sex seemed to believe that Greek and...untranslated were frequent Ornaments of their Closets." Richard Mulcaster, who was master of the school founded by the Merchant Taylor's Company in 1561, was... | |
 | University of Chicago - 1915 - Страниц: 240
...Ancient and Modern Learning said of the sixteenth century in England, "Learning was so very modish that the Fair Sex seemed to believe that Greek and...untranslated were frequent Ornaments of their Closets." Richard Mulcaster, who was master of the school founded by the Merchant Taylor's Company in 1561, was... | |
 | 1897 - Страниц: 526
...of their scholarly sons and daughters. Indeed, during the sixteenth century learning was " so modish that the fair sex seemed to believe that Greek and Latin added to their charms." The nobility, however, soon gave up the struggle. Tired at last with the noise of the city, the battle... | |
 | Stephanie Merrim - 1999 - Страниц: 374
...During the sixteenth century, Wotten says, to educate women "was so very modish that the fair Sex seem'd to believe that Greek and Latin added to their Charms;...untranslated were frequent Ornaments of their Closets. One wou'd think by the effects that it was a proper way of Educating them, since there are no accounts... | |
 | Mary Astell - 2002 - Страниц: 308
...that Learning was in about 150 years ago: It was so very modish (says he) that the fair Sex seem'd to believe that Greek and Latin added to their Charms;...Aristotle untranslated, were frequent Ornaments of their Closets.2 One wou'd think by the effects, that it was a proper way of Educating them, since there are... | |
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One wou'd think by the effects, that it was a proper way of Educating them, since there are no accounts in History of so many great Women in any one Age, as are to be found between the years 15 and 1600. 