Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Quote

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.


The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (ed. 1803)


We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our...

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our...

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our...

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our...