DEFOE OVERLOOKED
DEFINITION OF A LADY. The 8.8. C. "Brains Trust" made very heavy weather in trying to define a “lady" the other day, a little intimidated, perhaps, by the contribution of Lady Oxford and Asquith—"l’m afraid I don’t know.” No one, notes “Lucio” in the “Manchester Guardian," thought of Defoe, and indeed his definition, good for all times and all places, is to be found in an unlikely hiding-place—his “Essay on Projects.” “A Woman,” he declares, “well bred and well taught, furnished with the additional Accomplishments of Knowledge and Behaviour, is a creature without Comparison; her Society is the emblem of Sublime Enjoyments; her Person is angelic and her Conversation heavenly; she is all Softness, Sweetness, Peace, Love, Wit, and Delight; she is every way suitable to the sublimest wish; and the Man that has such a one to his Portion, has nothing to do but to rejoice in her and be thankful.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 2
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154DEFOE OVERLOOKED Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 September 1941, Page 2
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