Sentence:  If any object against a Learned Education, that it will make Women vain and assuming, and instead of correcting, encrease their Pride: I grant, that a <WSD>smattering</WSD> in Learning may; for it has this effect on the Men, none so Dogmatical, and so forward to shew their Parts as your little "Pretenders" to Science. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A superficial or shallow knowledge of a subject.