Preface to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s letters (1724) [ People / Practices ]
… a court, and the gentleness of a lady, what the severity of her judgment could not but condemn. In short, let her own sex at least, do her justice; lay aside diabolical Envy, and its brother Malice [Footnote: This fair and elegant … it. Let us be better natured, than to give way to any unkind or disrespectful thought of so bright an ornament of our sex, merely because she has better sense; for I doubt not but our hearts will tell us, that this is the real and …
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