 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 568 pągines
...never sent to any school," she says to one of her correspondents ; "and female education, in the besl; families, went no further than writing and arithmetic...some few an'd rare instances, music and dancing." In her twentieth year, in October, 1764, she was married to Mr, John Adarns. He was a young lawyer... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 368 pągines
...principle ; female learning was a subject of ridicule, and " female education," as Mrs. Adams tells us, " in the best families, went no further than writing and arithmetic ; in some, and rare instances, music and dancing." But Mrs. Adams did not have an opportunity of receiving even... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 372 pągines
...principle ; female learning was a subject of ridicule, and " female education," as Mrs. Adams tells us, " in the best families, went no further than writing and arithmetic ; in some, and rare instances, music and dancing." But Mrs. Adams did not have an opportunity of receiving even... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1859 - 372 pągines
...she says that, " it was fashionable to ridicule female learning " in her day, and adds, " I was never sent to any school. I was always sick. Female education, in the best families, went no farther than writing and arithmetic." Yet she improved her time at home, so that she possessed more... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1860 - 356 pągines
...principle ; female learning was a subject of ridicule, and "female education," as Mrs. Adams tells us, " in the best families, went no further than writing and arithmetic ; in some, and rare instances, music and dancing." But Mrs. Adams did not have an opportunity of receiving even... | |
 | Jesse Clement - 1869 - 490 pągines
...day; and she says of herself in one of her letters, " I was never sent to any school." She adds, " I was always sick. Female education, in the best families, went no further than writing and arithmetic." But notwithstanding her educational disadvantages, she read and studied in private, and kept up a brisk... | |
 | John Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 474 pągines
...the list of accomplishments within the reach of females was probably very short. She did not enjoy an opportunity to acquire even such as there might have...fact, that the author of the letters in the present volumel never went to any school, is a very important one to a properl estimate of her character. For,... | |
 | John Adams, Abigail Adams, Charles Francis Adams - 1875 - 498 pągines
...present days offer, and which even our common country schools now afford. / never was sent to any ichool. I was always sick. Female education, in the best families,...rare instances, music and dancing." Hence it is not im- ' reasonable to suppose that the knowledge gained by her was rather the result, of the society... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1882 - 790 pągines
...fashionable to ridicule female learning," Mrs. Adams wrote in one of her letters. " In the best families it went no further than writing and arithmetic ; in some few and rare instances, music and dancing." 8 But Mercy Warren was no slave to the social code. Urged by her own intrepid spirit, and stimulated... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1881 - 786 pągines
...power of thought and expression. Mrs. Abigail Smith Adams,2 wife of John Adams, born in 1744, says: " I never was sent to any school; I was always sick. Female...in some few and rare instances music and dancing." She says: "It was fashionable to ridicule female learning, and I regret the trifling, narrow, contracted... | |
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I never was sent to any school. I was always sick. Female education, in the best families, went no further than writing and arithmetic; in some few and rare instances, music and dancing. 
