Mary Astell Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• 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.

  Mary Astell

  Lying, Passion, Light

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.190, Broadview Press

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

  Mary Astell

  Marriage, Husband, Should Have

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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

  Mary Astell

  Design, Ends, Worthy

  Mary Astell (1717). “The Christian Religion, as Profess'd by a Daughter of the Church of England”, p.310

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