An essay in defence of the female sex: In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady.Astell, Mary
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An essay in defence of the female sex: In which are inserted the characters of a pedant, a squire, a beau, a vertuoso, a poetaster, a city-critick, &c. in a letter to a lady.
Astell, Mary
Women
I
_Invention improvable by the Society of Women_, p. 143.
_Ignorance of Latin no disadvantage_, p. 57.
_Imitation ridiculous_, p. 66.
_Impertinence, what_, p. 84.
—— _commonly mistaken_, p. 85.
—— _Epidemical_, p. 89.
—— _Officious_, p. 94.
—— _To be measur’d by its Artifice_, p. 109.
L
_Learning unjustly restrain’d to Latin and Greek only_, p. 45.
_Love frequently false_, p. 115.
_Levity, what_, p. 124.
—— _Less among Women than Men_, p. 125.
_Love, why so soon cold_, p. 128.
P
_Pedant’s Character_, p. 27.
_Points of deep Learning and Politicks, improper for mixt
Conversation_, p. 40.
_Poetaster’s Character_, p. 79.
Q
_The Question stated_, p. 6.
R
_Religion_, &c. _no proper subjects for mixt Conversation_, p. 38.
S
_Sexes not distinguish’d in Souls_, p. 11.
_Salique Law, its Original_, p. 22.
_Scowrer’s Character_, p, 64.
U
_Vulgar of both Sexes of equal Capacity_, p. 15.
_Vanity the Vice of Men_, p. 60.
—— _Fools Blessing_, p. 76.
—— _Universal_, p. 82.
_Vertuoso’s Character_, p. 96.
W
_Women, bred to too much Ignorance of Business_, p. 16.
—— _Industriously kept in ignorance_, p. 20.
—— _Why constanter Lovers than Men_, p. 129.
—— _Truer Friends than Men; and why_, p. 132.
—— _Not generally so vicious as Men_, p. 134.
_FINIS_:
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
1. Corrected the errors listed in the Errata.
2. Changed “suspicio s Prophetick” to “suspicions Prophetick” in the
Preface.
3. Changed “(I hope be accepted,” to “I hope be accepted,” in the
Preface.
4. Changed “it it was impossible” to “it was impossible” on p. 43.
5. Changed “and and I have known others” to “and I have known others”
on p. 43.
6. Changed “my my Grief” to “my Grief” on p. 48.
7. Changed “Philosophy, Mathematicks” to “Philosophy, Mathematicks,” on
p. 53.
8. Changed “in that kind” to “in that kind.” on p. 54.
9. Changed “and is more terrible to em” to “and is more terrible to
’em” on p. 81.
10. Changed “are paid by no no” to “are paid by no” on p. 96.
11. Changed “and and so part” to “and so part” on p. 127.
12. Added a period to the last sentence in a paragraph if one is
missing.
13. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.
14. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
15. Superscripts are denoted by a caret before a single superscript
character, e.g. M^r.
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