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... teachers to - day , our most ardent reformers , our most obstinate idealists ranking marriage so highly , reverencing marriage so deeply , holding up for example to all men , in contrast to the licentious life , the lives led " As ...
... teachers to - day , our most ardent reformers , our most obstinate idealists ranking marriage so highly , reverencing marriage so deeply , holding up for example to all men , in contrast to the licentious life , the lives led " As ...
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... , " must give way in the end , even in matters of principle , to [ the man's ] virile self- assertion . " ! ! Moreover , the man , according to the new tendency to teaching , will show a marked repudiate his 34 Marriage Questions.
... , " must give way in the end , even in matters of principle , to [ the man's ] virile self- assertion . " ! ! Moreover , the man , according to the new tendency to teaching , will show a marked repudiate his 34 Marriage Questions.
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Elizabeth Rachel Chapman. tendency to teaching , will show a marked repudiate his obligations towards his children and their mother . In other words home life will cease to exist . " The notion of necessarily keeping house together , the ...
Elizabeth Rachel Chapman. tendency to teaching , will show a marked repudiate his obligations towards his children and their mother . In other words home life will cease to exist . " The notion of necessarily keeping house together , the ...
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... teacher , but for the representations of an old friend , himself a distinguished scholar , who undertook to wrest from General Krukovsky this obvious fulfil- ment of an elementary parental duty . So Sonya studied a little , and her ...
... teacher , but for the representations of an old friend , himself a distinguished scholar , who undertook to wrest from General Krukovsky this obvious fulfil- ment of an elementary parental duty . So Sonya studied a little , and her ...
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... teaching of this kind , diligently instilled into our young men and maidens - theatre - goers or students of Shake- speare at home - but that , associated as it is with the reverence which our master - poet compels from all of us , it ...
... teaching of this kind , diligently instilled into our young men and maidens - theatre - goers or students of Shake- speare at home - but that , associated as it is with the reverence which our master - poet compels from all of us , it ...
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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!