 | Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 páginas
...loving and tender of her, was loath to grieve her; but he saw his error, when it was too late. For if she had attended her household affairs, and such...usefully and honorably in the place God had set her. He brought her to Boston, and left her with her brother, one Mr. Yale, a merchant, to try what means... | |
 | Margaret L. King - 2008 - 351 páginas
...that the wife of the governor of Connecticut had gone mad from delving into problems of theology: "For if she had attended her household affairs, and such...them usefully and honorably in the place God had set her."159 Two centuries earlier, the guardian of orthodoxy Jean Gerson wrote against the written works... | |
 | Leland Ryken - 1990 - 306 páginas
...Connecticut went insane. She read too much and dabbled in intellectual matters where she had no business: For if she had attended her household affairs, and such...things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way ... to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her... | |
 | Susan Howe - 1993 - 212 páginas
...loving and tender of her, was loath to grieve her; but he saw his errour, when it was too late. For if she had attended her household affairs, and such...things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger &c. she had kept her wits, and might have improved them usefully and honorably in the place God had... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1997 - 846 páginas
...loving and tender of her, was loath to grieve her; but he saw his error, when it was too late. For if she had attended her household affairs, and such...whose minds are stronger, etc. , she had kept her wits ... in the place God set her. Similar opinions about the necessarily finite role of women remained... | |
 | Linda Grant De Pauw - 1975 - 244 páginas
...had given "herself wholly to reading and writing and had written many books." The governor felt that "if she had attended her household affairs, and such...things as belong to women, and not gone out of her way to meddle with such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger, etc., she had kept her... | |
 | Kathleen Hall Jamieson - 1995 - 298 páginas
..."wholly to reading and writing and had written many books." Her wits might have been spared had she "attended her household affairs and such things as...such things as are proper for men whose minds are stronger."59 Hysteria, a disease peculiar to women, was first identified by Hippocrates, who drew its... | |
 | Helen Wilcox - 1996 - 334 páginas
...Massachusetts Bay, attributed the insanity of the poet Anne Hopkins to her 'reading and writing . . . if she had attended her household affairs, and such things as belong to women . . . she had kept her wits'. While for Vives reading could be symbolically equivalent to housework,... | |
 | Maria Braden - 1996 - 250 páginas
...wife was attributed to her "giving herself wholly to reading and writing. For if she had attended to her household affairs, and such things as belong to women, and not going out of her way and calling to meddle in such things as are proper for men, whose minds are stronger,... | |
 | Aliki Barnstone, Michael Tomasek Manson, Carol J. Singley - 1997 - 354 páginas
...of the governor of Hartford, who allegedly wrote herself into insanity. "For," Winthrop concludes, "if she had attended her household affairs, and such...usefully and honorably in the place God had set her" (Winthrop's 225). God set woman in her place, a position subordinate to man, and as far as Winthrop... | |
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... herself wholly to reading and writing, and had written many books. Her husband, being very loving and tender of her, was loath to grieve her; but he saw his error, when it was too late. For if she had attended her household affairs, and such things... 
