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... separated her radically from other girls , and made her peculiarly herself , -her boy- like instinct for fairplay , her fiery scorn of a blow in the back , and large - hearted protection of the feeble , undefended , and absent ...
... separated her radically from other girls , and made her peculiarly herself , -her boy- like instinct for fairplay , her fiery scorn of a blow in the back , and large - hearted protection of the feeble , undefended , and absent ...
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... separation and divorce , the consequences of the " legal theory of marriage , that the wife is ' under coverture , ' completely absorbed in the personality of her lord and master , " are frequently as cruelly oppressive to her as in the ...
... separation and divorce , the consequences of the " legal theory of marriage , that the wife is ' under coverture , ' completely absorbed in the personality of her lord and master , " are frequently as cruelly oppressive to her as in the ...
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... separation , legal and other , by which the consequences of the one irretrievable error of life may be mitigated , if not repaired . The idea of separation as a way out of the difficulty does not so much as occur to Milton . He knows of ...
... separation , legal and other , by which the consequences of the one irretrievable error of life may be mitigated , if not repaired . The idea of separation as a way out of the difficulty does not so much as occur to Milton . He knows of ...
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... separation is a choice of evils , the contention of the opponents of divorce is that separation , as a last resort in cases of intolerable hardship , is considerably the lesser evil of the two . As to the encouragement which any wider ...
... separation is a choice of evils , the contention of the opponents of divorce is that separation , as a last resort in cases of intolerable hardship , is considerably the lesser evil of the two . As to the encouragement which any wider ...
Page 154
... separation , but , where parental love is not a mockery , where self is not wholly in the ascendant , the last desperate remedy will be postponed as long as possible , or some modified form will be adopted which will avert outward ...
... separation , but , where parental love is not a mockery , where self is not wholly in the ascendant , the last desperate remedy will be postponed as long as possible , or some modified form will be adopted which will avert outward ...
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AUBREY BEARDSLEY become believe British Barbarians buckram ceremony character Christian Church civilisation contract Cover Design Crown 8vo Dante designed by PATTEN divorce doctrine duty English ESSAYS evil existing Fcap fiction Free Love G. F. WATTS George Eliot Grant Allen Hadria heart honour human husband ideal Illustrations indissoluble marriage instinct institution J. S. FLETCHER JOHN LANE LAURENCE HOUSMAN less liberty life-union literature M. P. SHIEL Marriage Questions married matter merely Milton mind modern monogamy moral nature NETTA SYRETT novel opinion passion PATTEN WILSON POEMS practically present problem-novel protest reform regard relation religious reverence revolt RICHARD LE GALLIENNE sacramental sacramental character sanction Scripture Second Edition sense separation social society Sonya soul spirit St Paul teaching tendency theory things thought tion Title-page and Cover to-day truth union view of marriage wife woman women word writer
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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!