FOOTNOTES:
[1] On aurait de la peine à se persuader qu’une pareille opinion eût été mise gravement en question dans un concile, et qu’on n’eût décidé en faveur des femmes qu’après un assez long examen. Cependant le fait est très véritable, et ce fut dans le Concile de Macon.
Problème sur les Femmes, où l’on essaye de prouver que les femmes ne sont point des créatures humaines.—Amsterdam, 1744.
[2] As, for instance, the ancient Germans, and their offshoots, the Saxons, &c.
[3] Southey’s Life; vol. ii.
CHAPTER II.
EARLY NEEDLEWORK.
“The use of sewing is exceeding old,
As in the sacred text it is enrold:
Our parents first in Paradise began.”
John Taylor.
“The rose was in rich bloom on Sharon’s plain,
When a young mother, with her first-born, thence
Went up to Sion; for the boy was vow’d
Unto the Temple service. By the hand
She led him; and her silent soul the while,
Oft as the dewy laughter of his eye
Met her sweet serious glance, rejoic’d to think
That aught so pure, so beautiful, was hers,
To bring before her God.”
Hemans.