“Comets and Women”
Date
1-17-1812
Newspaper
Farmer’s Repository
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 4
Newspaper Location
Charlestown, West Virginia
Serial Number
1227
Abstract
Article from Irish paper comparing comets and women.
Transcript
Comets and women.--Comets, doubtless answer some wise and good purpose in the creation-so do women.-Comets are incomprehensible, beautiful and eccentric-so are women. Comets shine with peculiar splendour, but at night appear most brilliant-so do women-Comets are enveloped with a lucid nepula, through which their forms are visible-like women, through their light and elegant attire. Comets confound the most learned when they attempt to ascertain their nature-so do women. Comets equally excite the admiration of the philosopher and of "the clod of the valley"-so do women-comets and women, are therefore closely analogous; but the nature of each being inscrutable, all that remains for us to do is, to view with admiration the one, and almost to adoration love the other. Irish paper.
Recommended Citation
"“Comets and Women”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 1180.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/1180
