Character Identification By Dialogue

Observe me, Sir Anthony, I would by no means

wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of

learning.... But, Sir Anthony, I would send her

at nine years old to a boarding school, in order to

learn a little ingenuity and artifice. Then, sir,

she should have a supercilious knowledge in

accounts;—and as she grew up, I would have

her instructed in geometry, that she might know

something of the contagious countries;—but

above all, Sir Anthony, she should be mistress

to orthodoxy, that she might not misspell and

mis-pronounce words so shamefully as girls

usually do; and likewise that she might

reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying.

Based on the characteristic language in the passage above, the speaker is: