 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1995 - 396 Seiten
...to gain the applause of gaping tasteless fools? 'Be even cautious in displaying your good sense.38 It will be thought you assume a superiority over the...from the men who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding.'39 If men of real merit, as... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - 1996 - 240 Seiten
...which Fenelon and the anonymous Reflections on Courtship and Marriage also had emphasized: "Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. ... it will...from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding."8 The availability of Fordyce's... | |
 | Anne Plumptre - 1996 - 388 Seiten
...guarded with great discretion and good nature, otherwise it will create you many enemies... . Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be...from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding ... [Source: Dr. Gregory, Legacy... | |
 | John Darling - 1996 - 144 Seiten
...reading (provided this is not carried to such lengths as to damage their health) or even with learning. But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a...from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding, (pp. 36-7) Gregory's lack of... | |
 | Lisbeth Haakonssen - 1997 - 268 Seiten
...'Be even cautious in displaying your good sense' he told his daughters and added, for good measure, 'if you happen to have any learning keep it a profound secret, especially from the men'.35 Gregory's advice to young ladies guaranteed his posterity in the annals of feminist criticism... | |
 | Julia Cherry Spruill - 1998 - 460 Seiten
...delicacy," was the most dangerous talent a girl could possess, thus admonishing her: "Be even careful in displaying your good sense. It will be thought...from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding." Bodily vigor, also unfeminine,... | |
 | Audrey Bilger - 1998 - 268 Seiten
...commentary, Austen attacks a prejudice against female learning best expressed in Gregory's conduct book: "if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound...from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding" (31—32). During the scene... | |
 | Mary Waldron - 2001 - 208 Seiten
...conceal it as well as she can' (NA in). This refers ironically to Gregory, A Father's Legacy, p. 13: 'But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a...from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding.' 4 Gregory, A Father's Legacy,... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 2000 - 428 Seiten
...surprising given comments such as Dr. Gregory's warning in his popular Father's Legacy to His Daughters: "l( you happen to have any learning keep it a profound...especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding."17 Contact with her mother was limited... | |
 | Paula R. Feldman - 2001 - 924 Seiten
...Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, quotes Gregory, also from A Father's Legacy: "But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a...from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding." * Aikin slightly misquotes... | |
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Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company.— But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous... 
