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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... leave me a bequest wherewith to keep my little ones together , why may . I not be legally enabled to secure this to their use and benefit ? In short , why am I not regarded by the law as a soul , responsible for my acts to God and ...
... leave me a bequest wherewith to keep my little ones together , why may . I not be legally enabled to secure this to their use and benefit ? In short , why am I not regarded by the law as a soul , responsible for my acts to God and ...
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... ; though freedom and equality have been proclaimed only to leave room for a monstrous display of slave - dealing and slave - keeping ; though the free American so often feels himself free , like the 3 NINETEENTH CENTURY . 25 PAGE.
... ; though freedom and equality have been proclaimed only to leave room for a monstrous display of slave - dealing and slave - keeping ; though the free American so often feels himself free , like the 3 NINETEENTH CENTURY . 25 PAGE.
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... leave them , and take with them the children , to perform the double duty of mother and father , follow from place to place , and threaten to rob them of the children , if deprived of the rights of a husband , as they call them ...
... leave them , and take with them the children , to perform the double duty of mother and father , follow from place to place , and threaten to rob them of the children , if deprived of the rights of a husband , as they call them ...
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... leave it more than she now does for balls , theatres , meetings for promoting missions , revival meetings , and others to which she flies , in hope of an animation for her existence commensurate with what she sees enjoyed by men ...
... leave it more than she now does for balls , theatres , meetings for promoting missions , revival meetings , and others to which she flies , in hope of an animation for her existence commensurate with what she sees enjoyed by men ...
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... leaves you so . " As indeed it was a frequent belief among the ancients , as with our Indians , that the body was inherited from the mother , the soul from the father . As in that noble passage of Ovid , already quoted , where Jupiter ...
... leaves you so . " As indeed it was a frequent belief among the ancients , as with our Indians , that the body was inherited from the mother , the soul from the father . As in that noble passage of Ovid , already quoted , where Jupiter ...
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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.