Mary Astell

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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

Mary Astell

best

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Mary Astell

design

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Mary Astell

design

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

Mary Astell

design

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Mary Astell

education

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Mary Astell

government

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

Mary Astell

happiness

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

Mary Astell

knowledge

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

Mary Astell

knowledge

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Mary Astell

marriage

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