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"Age of Sensibility"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"More, Hannah (1745-1833)"
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Date: 1777
"To an injudicious and superficial eye, the best educated girl may make the least brilliant figure, as she will probably have less flippancy in her manner, and less repartee in her expression; and her acquirements, to borrow bishop Sprat's idea, will be rather 'enamelled than embossed'."
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