Things As Certain As Death And Taxes,

Why Then Should Women Be Denied The Benefits Of Instruction? If Knowledge And Understanding Had Been Useless Additions To The Sex, God Almighty Would Never Have Given Them Capacities.

Manchester, One Of The Greatest, If Not Really The Greatest Mere Village In England.

For I Cannot Think That God Almighty Ever Made Them [women] So Delicate, So Glorious Creatures; And Furnished Them With Such Charms, So Agreeable And So Delightful To Mankind; With Souls Capable Of The Same Accomplishments With Men: And All, To Be Only Stewards Of Our Houses, Cooks, And Slaves.

Not The Man In The Moon, Not The Groaning-board, Not The Speaking Of Friar Bacon's Brazen- Head, Not The Inspiration Of Mother Shipton, Or The Miracles Of Dr. Faustus, Things As Certain As Death And Taxes, Can Be More Firmly Believed.

Alas The Church Of England! What With Popery On One Hand, And Schismatics On The Other, How Has She Been Crucified Between Two Thieves!