Dialogues Concerning Education (1745) [ Concepts / Practices ]
… Dialogue II. Simplicius, Cleora. SIMPLICIUS having gone to visit Cleora, the following Conversation past between them. Simplicius. Far be it from me, Madam, to defend any kind of Imposition on your Sex; but … to weigh, with a critical Exactness, every gay and complaisant thing, that is said by us in the Company of the Ladies. Conversation would languish, and lose of its Sprightliness and Poignancy, if the Men were debarred those agreeable … really expressive of a peculiar Regard to the Sex, but are perhaps raised somewhat above the Truth. Cleora. The End of Conversation, as I take it, is to be understood, and to exchange Sentiments with one another for mutual Instruction and …
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