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Ornaments for the daughters of Zion. Or The character and happiness of a virtuous…Ornaments for the daughters of Zion. Or The character and happiness of a vertuous…
Ornaments for the daughters of Zion. Or The character and happiness of a virtuous woman: in a discourse which directs the female-sex how to express, the fear of God, in every age and state of their life; and obtain both temporal and eternal blessedness. / Written by Cotton Mather ; [Four lines in Latin from Tertullian, followed by a six line translation into English]Ornaments for the daughters of Zion. Or The character and happiness of a vertuous woman: in a discourse which directs the female-sex how to express, the fear of God, in every age and state of their life; and obtain both temporal and eternal blessedness. / Written by Cotton Mather ; [Four lines in Latin from Tertullian, followed by a six line translation into English]
printed by S.G. & B.G. i.e for Samuel Phillips, 1692
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IV. Such is her Industry, that she betimes applies her self to Learn all the Affairs of Housewifry, and besides a good skill at her Needle, as well as in the Kitchen, she acquaints her self with Arithmetic and Accomptantship, [perhaps also Chirurgery • and such other Arts relating to Business, as may Enable her to do the Man whom she may hereafter have, Good and not Evil all the Days of her Life. If she have any Time after this to Learn Music and Language she will not Loose her Time, and yet she will no• be proud •f her Skill, though the Name of Lora, that is▪ Learning, (which the Saxons had in use among them for their Women) should justly belong u•to her. She would with all good Accomplishments be a Ruth; which is to say, A Filled One.
IV. Such is her Industry, that she betimes applies her self to Learn all the Affairs of Housewifry, and besides a good skill at her Needl•, as well as in the Kitchen, she acquaints her self with Arithmetick and Accomptantship, [perhaps also Chirurgery • and such other Arts relating to Business, as may Enable her to do the Man whom she may hereafter have, Good and not Evil all the Days of her Life. If she have any Time after this to Learn Musick and Language she will not Loose her Time, and yet she will no• be proud •f her Skill, though the Name of Lora, that is▪ Learning, (which the Saxons had in use among them for their Women) should justly belong u•to her. She would with all good Accomplishments be a Ruth; which is to say, A Filled One.