...daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman ... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school,...in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice . . . Look carefully at this speech and analyse Mrs Malaprop's attitude to young women. How wise is...

...don't think so much learning becomes a young woman; for KHI instance -1 would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or Algebra, or Simony, or Fluxions,...neither would it be necessary for her to handle any i<« of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments. But, Sir Anthony, I would send her,...

...Algebra, or Simony, or Fluxions, or Paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning—neither would it be necessary for her to handle any of your...Anthony, I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding - school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice.—Then, Sir, she should have...

...don't think so much learning becomes a young woman ; for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions,...diabolical instruments. — But, Sir Anthony, I would c. E. c. 6 send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school in order to learn a little ingenuity and...

...Malaprop tells Sir Anthony Adverse "what I would have a woman know" : I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or Algebra, or Simony, or Fluxions,...Paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning . . . but, Sir Anthony, I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn...