Unhappy Is That Grandeur Which

Hitherto I Have Courted Truth With A Kind Of Romantick Passion, In Spite Of All Difficulties And Discouragements: For Knowledge Is Thought So Unnecessary An Accomplishment For A Woman, That Few Will Give Themselves The Trouble To Assist Us In The Attainment Of It.

Although It Has Been Said By Men Of More Wit Than Wisdom, And Perhaps More Malice Than Either, That Women Are Naturally Incapable Of Acting Prudently, Or That They Are Necessarily Determined To Folly, I Must By No Means Grant It.

We All Agree That Its Fit To Be As Happy As We Can, And We Need No Instructor To Teach Us This Knowledge, 'tis Born With Us, And Is Inseparable From Our Being, But We Very Much Need To Be Inform'd What Is The True Way To Happiness.

The Scum Of The People Are Most Tyrannical When They Get The Power, And Treat Their Betters With The Greatest Insolence.

The Design Of Rhetoric Is To Remove Those Prejudices That Lie In The Way Of Truth, To Reduce The Passions To The Government Of Reasons; To Place Our Subject In A Right Light, And Excite Our Hearers To A Due Consideration Of It.