This is, methinks, the most proper way wherein a Lady can shew a fine Genius, and I cannot forbear wishing, that several Writers of that Sex had chosen to apply themselves rather to Tapestry than Rhime.
We may [then] with Assurance, exhort Ladies to apply themselves to Study; without having Respect to the little Reasons of those who would undertake to divert them there-from.
Answer: The assumption that women do not care to apply themselves to studies becomes logically important only when it is proved of women after excitation and opportunity in studies.
There stood the old goblin from the Dovre mountains, with his crown of hardened ice and polished fir-cones.
A sudden, cloudless sky was for her a blank leaf; and for several days she had only had such leaves before her.
Others, on the contrary, have the mind naturally pure and restful, so that they are apt for contemplation, and if they were to apply themselves wholly to action, this would be detrimental to them.
Therefore it is not for them to apply themselves to the study of letters.
It is for this reason that by common custom children are made to apply themselves to those duties or arts with which they are to pass their lives.
What makes this Generation of Vermin so very prolifick, is the indefatigable Diligence with which they apply themselves to their Business.
This shows that they who are most favoured by Nature, as well as those to whom she has been less indulgent, ought to apply themselves assiduously to the things by which they would gain themselves a reputation.
I observe, besides, that men who abandon themselves to the debauches of wine or women find it more difficult to apply themselves to things that are profitable, and to abstain from what is hurtful.
Their intestine discords left them scarcely any leisure to cultivate their fields, or apply themselves to the improvement of an art which flourishes only in peaceful times.
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