Dialogues Concerning Education (1745) [ Concepts / Practices ]
… Conversation past between them. Simplicius. Far be it from me, Madam, to defend any kind of Imposition on your Sex; but methinks, it were too rigid to weigh, with a critical Exactness, every gay and complaisant thing, that is said … if the Men were debarred those agreeable cajoling Ways, which are 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 … 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 matter to please one of your Delicacy; but I …
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