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Letter to Editor
October 25, 1783
The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
What is this article about?
A satirical letter mocks a writer's rigid, stoical moralizing on women's foibles, warning that his insensibility and pretentiousness make him undesirable to the fair sex, and ridicules his multilingual smattering and poor singing.
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Full Text
Maintain a heart not capable of impression, if we judge by your puerile address. Plato himself could not moralize more rigidly; you are so stoical that if all men were of your constitution, the human race would be in danger of annihilation. You may assure yourself the Fair Sex will dread a connection with such a finical figure of a man, whose mind is so disturbed with indigested ideas, whims, fancies and vagaries, and in want of sensibility, candor and generosity. When you expose the foibles of the Fair, which are but the incidents of human nature, you appear to be the offspring of an English mother, and Italian or Latin father, and ushered into the world by a French midwife, from whom you have learnt a smattering of each language, and would palm yourself upon us as very learned; but you need not have taken so much pains, for those of us who have heard you attempt to sing know well that you can much better bray.
What sub-type of article is it?
Satirical
Provocative
Social Critique
What themes does it cover?
Morality
Social Issues
What keywords are associated?
Satirical Attack
Stoical Moralizing
Fair Sex Foibles
Pretentious Learning
Insensibility
Letter to Editor Details
Main Argument
the writer's stoical moralizing on women's foibles reveals his own insensibility and pretentiousness, making him undesirable to women and exposing his superficial learning.
Notable Details
Compares Writer To Plato For Rigid Moralizing
Insults Singing Ability By Saying He Brays Better