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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 time 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 Behavioui, is a creature without Comparison; her Society is the emblem of Sublime Enjoyments; her Person is angelic and her Conversation heavenly: she ip 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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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24715, 18 September 1941, Page 5

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DEFINITION OF A LADY Otago Daily Times, Issue 24715, 18 September 1941, Page 5

DEFINITION OF A LADY Otago Daily Times, Issue 24715, 18 September 1941, Page 5

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