 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1796 - 504 pàgines
...underftandjng, becaufe I admit not of fuch an arrogant aflumption of reafon; but I contend that it was a found one, and that her judgment, the matured fruit of profound...acquire judgment, in the full extent of the word. Pofleffing more penetration than fagacity, more underftanding than fancy, me writes with fober energy... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1833 - 234 pàgines
...call her's a masculine understanding, because I admit not of such an arrogant assumption of reason ; but I contend that it was a sound one, and that her...understanding than fancy, she writes with sober energy, jt^d argumentative closeness ; yet sympathy and benevolence give an interest to her sentiments, and... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 pàgines
...call hers a masculine understanding, because I admit not of such an arrogant assumption of reason; but I contend that it was a sound one, and that her...acquire judgment, in the full extent of the word" (VW 175). Wollstonecraft also worked out some "heterogeneous associations" of her own, revealing her... | |
 | David Simpson - 1993 - 264 pàgines
...such figures as Catherine Macaulay and Mary Hays. Wollstonecraft cited Macaulay's career as evidence that "a woman can acquire judgment, in the full extent of the word," and as a person whose "argumentative closeness" was not achieved at the expense of "sympathy and benevolence."77... | |
 | Maria J. Falco - 2010 - 250 pàgines
...masculine understanding (Macaulay's), because I admit not of such an arrogant assumption of reason; but I contend that it was a sound one, and that her judgement, the matured fruit of profound thinking, was a proof that a woman can acquire judgement in... | |
 | Barbara Caine - 1997 - 358 pàgines
...reason'. What she wanted now was to claim Macaulay as a model of what women could be. Her judgement was 'the matured fruit of profound thinking, was a proof that a woman can acquire judgement in the full extent of that word'.73 Macaulay was, in Wollstonecraft's view, 'the woman of... | |
 | Larry E. Tise - 1998 - 690 pàgines
...Macaulay's work. "I will not call hers a masculine understanding." she wrote. Rather. "her judgement. the matured fruit of profound thinking. was a proof...acquire judgment. in the full extent of the word." Before getting on with the rest of her revolutionary work. Wollstonecraft paid Macaulay. whom she never... | |
 | Barbara Taylor - 2003 - 356 pàgines
...call hers a masculine understanding, because I admit not of such an arrogant assumption of reason; but I contend that it was a sound one, and that her judgement . . . was a proof that a woman can acquire judgement, in the full extent of the word.'46... | |
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I will not call her's a masculine understanding, because I admit not of such an arrogant assumption of reason ; but I contend that it was a sound one, and that her judgment, the matured fruit of profound thinking, was a proof that a woman can acquire... 