The Female Reader: A Facsimile ReproductionThe first educational anthology published by a woman, for & about women. Displays Wollstonecraft's literary eclecticism, early interest in education, & hitherto undocumented religious orientation. |
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... Affectation is certain deformity . By forming yourselves on fantastic models , and vying with one an- other in every reigning folly , the young begin with being ridiculous , and end in being vicious and immoral . GREGORY . ALL affectation ...
... Affectation is certain deformity . By forming yourselves on fantastic models , and vying with one an- other in every reigning folly , the young begin with being ridiculous , and end in being vicious and immoral . GREGORY . ALL affectation ...
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... affectation ; for though warm affections , and tender feelings , are beyond measure amiable and charming , when perfectly natural , and kept under the due controul of reason and principle ; yet nothing is fo truly disgusting as the ...
... affectation ; for though warm affections , and tender feelings , are beyond measure amiable and charming , when perfectly natural , and kept under the due controul of reason and principle ; yet nothing is fo truly disgusting as the ...
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... AFFECTATION . I MUST with more than ordinary earneftness give you caution against vanity , it being the fault to which your fex feems to be the most inclined : and , fince affectation for the most part attends it , I do not know how to ...
... AFFECTATION . I MUST with more than ordinary earneftness give you caution against vanity , it being the fault to which your fex feems to be the most inclined : and , fince affectation for the most part attends it , I do not know how to ...
Contents
TO FEMALES | 1 |
BOOK I | 1 |
The Importance of Religion to Minds of Senfibility Mirror | 9 |
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