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
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- Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the 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.
- But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
- God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.