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^^ S X ^ Th er de - taught that she iTtpe a > atiQBiil companion to those of « ie other sex among whom her lot
Iff life ia cast , that her proper spusre w % » f—that there she is to provide , not only for the bodily comfort of man , but that she is to enter also into community of mind with him | that she is to strengthen him in the hour of trial ; to cheer him in times of
despondence ; to exert herself for Hia improvement and her own ; to encourage him in rational pursuits ,, both by her example and sympathy * that she is to be tfie participator in his happi ness , the consoler of his sorrows , the support of his weakness , and his
friend under all circumstances . For this purpose she must exert her ovvn faculties , store her mind , strengthen her reason , and' so far enrich her natural bowers b y cultivation , as to be capable of performing- the important duties which fall to her lot : Lfet her
preserve her natural simplicity , her feminine gentleness , her perfect inno cence . Let her become mistress of all the little arts , of all the itttportant trifles , ( if I may so express myself , ) wliich render home a scene of comfort ; but let not these be niadethe end iftstead of the means . Iiike our
attendant planet , let her , while she is the constant companion of man , Borrow sufficient light from thS sun of knowledge to cheer him in Ids hours of darkness , and fie will find that the 1 > ro $ rress she . makes towards this great uminary will not interfere with the compamonship she owes to him . When this is done , when woman is
allowed to claim her privileges as an intellectual being , the folly , the frivo lity , and all the mean vices and faiilts which have hitherto been the reproach or the sex , will gradually disappear . As she finds nbbfeir objects presented to her grasp , a ^ d that tier rank in % e scale of being is eleyat ^ d , ihe will ingraft the vigorous : qualitiea of the
mina of man pn Her own Dloortn ^ virtues , and ^ inuAte iiitb his mind those softer grawa aiitf ioiilder beau-SUr ^^ tWi is the natural state of
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anticipate * See what has already been ^ d nei T W tfie pt ^^ trt age , ^^ dll * cwh cottatrjr / we can reckon amo % those who have r ^ dere §| imj > o « atlt ^ ervice ^ to society at latg ^ as well as to their owa xarde of jfriends , the names of Mor ^ - ^ arbauldji Ws ^ S ^ itot ^ Edffeworth ^ Carter , Talbot , Elizabeth
Smith , Ghap 6 ne , Grant , AikJu and Cappe . Most of these ladies have written ort the noblest subjects whiek < tan exercisj 6 * jrtie human mind , religion and morality , and have thus proved that the cultivation of thfe powers of the female minid is favourable instead Of injurious to these important in * terests . - ^ ' ¦ . ....- ¦
I cannot better conclude than with the hope , that these examples of what may be done may excite a noble emulation in their own sex , and in ours such a conviction of the value of the female mind , as shall overcome our long-cherished prejudices ; and induce us to give our earnest endeavours to the promotion of woman ' s best interests , DISCIFUUJ& f -v . m ^^ m ^^— ' : ¦ . <
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* Sift , Feb ± 3 , 1823 . ALTH OUGH I have not Beetf th& editfon" of te " l ^ w M ^> ment , " which CarUabriMenste - 4 ^* scribe ^* I flatter myself that I catt give &im some information as to ih ^ editor , " llie ReV . Mr . John Lindsay , ^ whose name occurs more than one&
m a publication abounding with no * tices of the lives and writings of clergymen , f - The elder Mr . Bowyer * s correct ^ of the press , was usually a nonjuring teacher j to which class of episcopalians the worthy printer himself
befonged . In the Historic * Typographo tutn ^ SfC ^ X w 6 f * " *** an'aUua ^ on to one of the persons bo employed by hhn ^ ^ either /* says Nichols , " Mr . - Joto Blackburne , or Mr , John Lindsay . ^ Among the papers that issued ' from the same press * during th « year 1726 > are enumerated ^ Prop ^ sale for Mujt ^ Mit by aubgcription , A Vipai ^ tion ag
the Church of England ana « xe luvvfol Klini ^ thereof , &c , * Wntt <» i by Ftancia Mftson , B . B ., &c , and now . '¦ \ ~ ' .. ' -j ' - - . \ W •' ; ' ¦ \ 9 .... A !?•¦ / ..: ' i' -- ' ¦ ' - ± -a ) ' * ' , 'W * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1823, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1781/page/17/
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