Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Richard Whately
Born: February 1, 1787
Died: October 8, 1863 (aged 76)
Bio: Richard Whately was an English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian who also served as the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin.
Known for:
- Elements of logic (1826)
- Easy lessons on reasoning (1845)
- Paley's Moral Philosophy, With Annotations