Woman in the Nineteenth Century: And Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of WomanJ.P. Jewett, 1855 - 428 páginas |
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... doubt , a new manifestation is at hand , a new hour in the day of Man . We cannot expect to see any one sample of completed being , when the mass of men still lie engaged in the sod , or use the freedom of their • limbs only with ...
... doubt , a new manifestation is at hand , a new hour in the day of Man . We cannot expect to see any one sample of completed being , when the mass of men still lie engaged in the sod , or use the freedom of their • limbs only with ...
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... doubt is whether the heart does consent with the head , or only obeys its decrees with a passiveness that precludes the exercise of its natural nor consent . powers , or a repugnance that turns sweet qualities to 3 * NINETEENTH CENTURY .
... doubt is whether the heart does consent with the head , or only obeys its decrees with a passiveness that precludes the exercise of its natural nor consent . powers , or a repugnance that turns sweet qualities to 3 * NINETEENTH CENTURY .
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... doubt that lays waste the fair occasions of life . It is to ascertain the truth that we propose some liberating measures . ' " " Thus vaguely are these questions proposed and dis- cussed at present . But their being proposed at all im ...
... doubt that lays waste the fair occasions of life . It is to ascertain the truth that we propose some liberating measures . ' " " Thus vaguely are these questions proposed and dis- cussed at present . But their being proposed at all im ...
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... doubt that Woman can express publicly the fulness of thought and creation , without losing any of the peculiar beauty of her sex . What can pollute and tarnish is to act thus from any motive except that something needs to be said or ...
... doubt that Woman can express publicly the fulness of thought and creation , without losing any of the peculiar beauty of her sex . What can pollute and tarnish is to act thus from any motive except that something needs to be said or ...
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... doubt not it was the same in Athens of old . The women , shut out from the market - place , made up for it at the religious festivals . For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion . If they do not get it ...
... doubt not it was the same in Athens of old . The women , shut out from the market - place , made up for it at the religious festivals . For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion . If they do not get it ...
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Página 50 - OH that those lips had language ! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last. Those lips are thine — thy own sweet smile I see, The same that oft in childhood solaced me; Voice only fails, else how distinct they say, 'Grieve not, my child, chase all thy fears away!
Página 52 - Countrymen, My heart doth joy that yet, in all my life, I found no man but he was true to me. I shall have glory by this losing day, More than Octavius and Mark Antony By this vile conquest shall attain unto. So fare you well at once; for Brutus...
Página 326 - That hangs his head, and a' that ; The coward slave — we pass him by ! We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ! The rank is but the Guinea's stamp; The Man 's the gowd for a
Página 52 - You are my true and honourable wife, As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Página 38 - What Woman needs is not as a woman to act or rule, but as a nature to grow, as an intellect to discern, as a soul to live freely and unimpeded, to unfold such powers as were given her when we left our common home.
Página 53 - Have you not love enough to bear with me, When that rash humour which my mother gave me Makes me forgetful ? Bru.
Página 67 - Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch, Much less your fairest mind invade; Were not our souls immortal made, Our equal loves can make them such.
Página 342 - IT is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man.
Página 63 - Ye cannot believe it, men ; but the only reason why women ever assume what is more appropriate to you, is because you prevent them from finding out what is fit for themselves.
Página 401 - Vergine, tale è terra e posto ha in doglia Lo mio cor, che vivendo in pianto il tenne; E di mille miei mali un non sapea; E per saperlo, pur quel che n' avvenne Fora avvenuto ; ch' ogni altra sua voglia Era a me morte ed a lei fama rea.