True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. I would wish her no further a linguist
than to enable her to read books in their originals, that are often corrupted, and always injured, by
translations. Two hours' application every morning will bring this about much sooner than you
can imagine, and she will have leisure enough besides to run over the English poetry, which is a
5 more important part of a woman's education than it is generally supposed. Many a young damsel
has been ruin...
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