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... Mind has moulded , neutralized , and all but annihilated matter . The lessons thus taught are for the one sex as well as for the other , and do not require to be re- peated here . We do not propose in the following pages merely to ...
... Mind has moulded , neutralized , and all but annihilated matter . The lessons thus taught are for the one sex as well as for the other , and do not require to be re- peated here . We do not propose in the following pages merely to ...
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... - verted understanding about the superiority of either to any mixture of the two . An effeminate man and a masculine woman are among the strongest images that the mind can call up of the unsuitable and FEMALE EXAMPLES . - INTRODUCTION . 11.
... - verted understanding about the superiority of either to any mixture of the two . An effeminate man and a masculine woman are among the strongest images that the mind can call up of the unsuitable and FEMALE EXAMPLES . - INTRODUCTION . 11.
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George Lillie Craik. that the mind can call up of the unsuitable and re- pulsive . But to make a woman learned , some will say , is to make her masculine . Is the capacity for the acquisition of knowledge , then , possessed by men only ...
George Lillie Craik. that the mind can call up of the unsuitable and re- pulsive . But to make a woman learned , some will say , is to make her masculine . Is the capacity for the acquisition of knowledge , then , possessed by men only ...
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... minds , too , like their bodies , are more capable of long - continued exertion . They are moreover thrown by circumstances , and the life they necessarily lead , much more than women can ever generally be , in the way of receiving ...
... minds , too , like their bodies , are more capable of long - continued exertion . They are moreover thrown by circumstances , and the life they necessarily lead , much more than women can ever generally be , in the way of receiving ...
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... perish which can be preserved and turned to account ; least of all the most precious of all things , mind . The nearer society advances towards perfection , the less waste will there B 3 FEMALE EXAMPLES . - INTRODUCTION . 15.
... perish which can be preserved and turned to account ; least of all the most precious of all things , mind . The nearer society advances towards perfection , the less waste will there B 3 FEMALE EXAMPLES . - INTRODUCTION . 15.
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Página 53 - Thence home, and there, in favour to my eyes, staid at home, reading the ridiculous History of my Lord Newcastle,' wrote by his wife, which shows her to be a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman, and he an asse to suffer her to write what she writes to him, and of him.
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Página 103 - I saw and loved. I found her learned without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners ; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance. She permitted me to make her two or three visits at her father's house. I passed some happy days there, in the mountains of Burgundy, and her parents honourably encouraged the connection. In a calm retirement the gay vanity of youth no longer fluttered in her bosom ; she listened...
Página 362 - Ligonier ; and had been trained rather to the accomplishments which adorn a court, than to those which are useful in domestic life. She was. however, a person of great natural acuteness, and of very lively wit; and her conversation, original though desultory, had no doubt considerable influence in rousing her daughter's mind. She was assiduous, too, in conveying the accomplishments which she herself retained ; and Mary became, under her mother's care, a considerable proficient in music, and an excellent...