The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.