Dialogues Concerning Education (1745) [ Concepts / Practices ]
… Society? But it is not so much those common Forms of speaking, which Custom has made universal, that I condemn, as those courtly Strains of Deceit, used by your Sex, to flatter and impose on ours. Simp . I find, Madam, it will be no easy … to ask you, Madam, how it has come about, that you, who have been bred up at and near the Town, and have been often at Court, should be such a sworn Foe to the elegant Forms of polite Life, or to those Ways of Adress, that are in vogue …
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