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... looks on marriage as a useful , nay an indispensable social safeguard , -not as the noblest factor in the highest civilisa- tion of man . Sometimes it is merely a " prejudice . " " If they meant to live among decent people , " Charlton ...
... looks on marriage as a useful , nay an indispensable social safeguard , -not as the noblest factor in the highest civilisa- tion of man . Sometimes it is merely a " prejudice . " " If they meant to live among decent people , " Charlton ...
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... look from her window only meant to find repeated the trivialities of life . . . . It was the estimable and domestic qualities of Nature that presented themselves ; Nature in her most maternal and most uninspired mood - mother earth ...
... look from her window only meant to find repeated the trivialities of life . . . . It was the estimable and domestic qualities of Nature that presented themselves ; Nature in her most maternal and most uninspired mood - mother earth ...
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... looks after the children . Any average fool would do ! " Abstention from actual ill - treatment is then , for our frondeuse , the highest ideal of motherly , certainly of married motherly love . She talks of this as " the usual form of ...
... looks after the children . Any average fool would do ! " Abstention from actual ill - treatment is then , for our frondeuse , the highest ideal of motherly , certainly of married motherly love . She talks of this as " the usual form of ...
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... Look at her early years - at the spring and seed - time of her life — when , had her wonderful mathematical brain been encased in a boy's skull , she would have been acquiring easily and naturally , amid every facility that the best ...
... Look at her early years - at the spring and seed - time of her life — when , had her wonderful mathematical brain been encased in a boy's skull , she would have been acquiring easily and naturally , amid every facility that the best ...
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... look upon the practice of writing about women slightingly , contemptu- ously at best in that tone of affectionate patronage in which it is sometimes an indignity to address even an intelligent child - as a survival which might , with ...
... look upon the practice of writing about women slightingly , contemptu- ously at best in that tone of affectionate patronage in which it is sometimes an indignity to address even an intelligent child - as a survival which might , with ...
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Page 66 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Page 75 - Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page ix - I find this conclusion more impressed upon me, — that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly, is poetry, prophecy, and religion, — all in one.
Page 67 - Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband; And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, sour, And not obedient to his honest will, What is she but a foul contending rebel And graceless traitor to her loving lord?
Page 185 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the Head of the Church : and He is the Saviour of the body. Therefore as the Church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Page 77 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Page 117 - It was ordained for the mutual society, help, and comfort, that the one ought to have of the other, both in prosperity and adversity.
Page 75 - The whole world was made for man, but the twelfth part of man for woman ; man is the whole world, and the breath of God; woman the rib and crooked piece of man.
Page 87 - The common problem, yours, mine, every one's, Is — not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be, — but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means: a very different thing!