"As it can't but be uneasie to the Person who pays it, so he who receives it will be sometimes disappointed when he expects to find it, for that Woman must be endow'd with a Wisdom and Goodness much above what we suppose the Sex capable of, I fear much greater than e're a Man can pretend to, who can so constantly conquer her Passions, and divest her self even of Innocent Self-love, as to give up the Cause when she is in the right, and to submit her enlightned Reason, to the imperious Dictates of a blind Will, and wild Imagination, even when she clearly perceives the ill Consequences of it, the Imprudence, nay Folly and Madness of such a Conduct."
Some Reflections Upon Marriage
6 entries in ESTC (1700, 1703, 1706, 1730).<br>
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<u>Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Occasion'd by the Duke & Dutchess of Mazarine's Case; Which Is Also Consider'd.</u> (London: Printed for John Nutt near Stationers-Hall, 1700). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/R32824">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/astell/marriage/marriage.html">Link to Penn's Women Writers</a>&gt