 | Mary Wollstonecraft - Women authors, English - 1879 - 294 pages
...hen keeps the young warm, her mate stays by to cheer her ; but it is sufficient for man to condescend to get a child, in order to claim it. A man is a tyrant...it were not for me, you would be laughing away with some honest fellows in London. The casual exercise of social sympathy would not be sufficient for me... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1879 - 288 pages
...hen keeps the young warm, her mate stays by to cheer her ; but it is sufficient for man to condescend to get a child, in order to claim it. A man is a tyrant...it were not for me, you would be laughing away with some honest fellows in London. The casual exercise of social sympathy would not be sufficient for me... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - Authors, English - 1879 - 286 pages
...hen keeps the young warm, her mate stays by to cheer her ; but it is sufficient for man to condescend to get a child, in order to claim it. A man is a tyrant...it were not for me, you would be laughing away with some honest fellows in London. The casual exercise of social sympathy would not be sufficient for me... | |
 | G. R. Stirling Taylor - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 232 pages
...hen keeps the young warm, her mate stays by to cheer her ; but it is sufficient for man to condescend to get a child in order to claim it. A man is a tyrant." So much on the abstract rights and duties of the father ; then follows a sentence which is very typical... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - Political Science - 1992 - 394 pages
...keeps the young warm, her mate stays by to cheer her; but it is sufficient for a man to condescend to get a child, in order to claim it. — A man is a tyrant!" (Letters 1794:242) Wollstonecraft never appeared as Lockean in her view of property rights as she was... | |
 | Susan C. Greenfield - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 236 pages
...seems to me, by a natural right, to belong to her. . . . [But] it is sufficient for man to condescend to get a child, in order to claim it. — A man is a tyrant!" (Wardle 242). Contrasting the father's legal proprietorship with a maternal "right" to custody that... | |
 | Barbara Taylor - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 356 pages
...keeps the young warm, her mate stays by to cheer her; but it is sufficient for a man to condescend to get a child, in order to claim it. - A man is a tyrant!'0' The point is serious, but the tone is light. Eighteen months later, however, she is describing... | |
 | Harriet Devine, Harriet Devine Jump - Feminism and literature - 2003 - 456 pages
...hen keeps the young warm, her mate stays by to cheer her; but it is sufficient for man to condescend to get a child, in order to claim it. - A man is a tyrant! (242) The request at the letter's end betrays Wollstonecraft's fear that the idyll is irrevocably lost;... | |
 | Madeline Linford - Authors, English - 1924 - 202 pages
...hen keeps the young warm, her mate stays by to cheer her, but it is sufficient for man to condescend to get a child, in order to claim it. A man is a tyrant...it were not for me, you would be laughing away with some honest fellows in London. The casual exercise of social sympathy would not be sufficient for me... | |
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Amongst the feathered race, whilst the hen keeps the young warm, her mate stays by to cheer her ; but it is sufficient for man to condescend to get a child, in order to claim it. A man is a tyrant... 