Bathsua Makin Quotes

• A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.

  Bathsua Makin

  Gender, Comets, Mischief

  1673 An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen In Religion, Manners, Art and Tongues,With An Answer to the Objections against this Way of Education.

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• Let no Body be afrighted, because so many things are to be learnt, when the learning of them will be so pleasant; how profitable I need not tell you.

  Bathsua Makin

  Learning, Knowledge, Needs

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• To ask too much is the way to be denied all.

  Bathsua Makin

  Too Much, Way, Denied

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• ... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

  Bathsua Makin

  Philosophy, Men, Littles

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• These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.

  Bathsua Makin

  Men, Law, People

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