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" But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding. "
Pushing to the Front - Page 135
by Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 460 pages
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Letters on the Improvement of the Mind Addressed to a Lady and a Father's ...

Mrs. Chapone (Hester), John Gregory - 1808 - 210 pages
...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 and malignant eye ou a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding. A man of real genins and candour is far superior...
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The Lady's Pocket Library

1809 - 344 pages
...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 and...woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding. A man of real genius and candour is far superior to this meanness; but such an one \ull seldom fail...
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Letters on the Improvement of the Mind: Addressed to a Lady

Mrs. Chapone (Hester) - 1810 - 202 pages
...any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from t'ne men, who generally look with a jeslous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding. A man of real genius and candour is far superior to this meanness :' But such a one will seldom fall...
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The young woman's companion; or, Female instructor [by J.A. Stewart].

J A. Stewart - 1814 - 798 pages
...of the company. But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant...woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding. It is true, a man of real genius and candour is far from this meanness. But should such an one fall...
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The young woman's companion; or, Female instructor [by J.A. Stewart].

J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...company. But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from men,_who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on...woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding. It is true, a man of real genius and candour is far from this meanness. But should such an one fall...
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Letters on the improvement of the mind, by mrs. Chapone. A father's legacy ...

Hester Chapone - 1821 - 358 pages
...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 and...woman of great parts and a cultivated understanding. : A man of real genius and candour is far superior to this meanness : but such a one will seldom fall...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 18

1830 - 368 pages
...daughters : — " If you happen (says he) to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts." My God, what sort of men must these be, and what degrading ideas must they have of women ! Butler,...
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Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington ...

James Lackington - 1827 - 368 pages
...daughters : — " If you happen (says he) to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a, jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts." My God, what sort of men must these be, and what degrading ideas must they have of women ! Butler,...
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Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 18

1830 - 372 pages
...daughters : — " If you happen (says he) to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts." My God, what sort of men must these be, and what degrading ideas must they have of women ! Butler,...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral ...

Mary Wollstonecraft - 1833 - 234 pages
...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 and...woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding." If men of real merit, as he afterward observes, are superior to this meanness, where is the necessity...
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