The Intellectual Severance of Men and WomenT. C. Newby, 1860 - 124 páginas |
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... opinion is more lax respecting their conduct ; they take advantage of the impunity granted them ; their sense of virtue becomes blunted . " This woman is worth arguing with . She has told us some truth , but not all . It is true that ...
... opinion is more lax respecting their conduct ; they take advantage of the impunity granted them ; their sense of virtue becomes blunted . " This woman is worth arguing with . She has told us some truth , but not all . It is true that ...
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... opinion to male wickedness ; the indescribable temptations to which young men are exposed but the greatest and principal causes of laxity in morals to youths of generous minds I believe to be , the miserably artificial state of society ...
... opinion to male wickedness ; the indescribable temptations to which young men are exposed but the greatest and principal causes of laxity in morals to youths of generous minds I believe to be , the miserably artificial state of society ...
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... opinions on all abstract questions which concern the progress and welfare of humanity - the frivolity of their lives ... opinion , and to furnish their own peculiar inducements of reward to a solid and lofty merit in the opposite sex ...
... opinions on all abstract questions which concern the progress and welfare of humanity - the frivolity of their lives ... opinion , and to furnish their own peculiar inducements of reward to a solid and lofty merit in the opposite sex ...
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... opinion in this respect , which palsies the efforts of genius . The author of ' Vanity Fair , ' who evidently chafes within the artificial limits im- posed by a hypocritical age on his great powers of observation and description , says ...
... opinion in this respect , which palsies the efforts of genius . The author of ' Vanity Fair , ' who evidently chafes within the artificial limits im- posed by a hypocritical age on his great powers of observation and description , says ...
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... opinion is sadly inconsistent on this head . Nothing is more terrifying to a young man of spirit than the reputation of being " a muff ; " and even ladies , though they don't like practically a husband smelling of smoke , and making use ...
... opinion is sadly inconsistent on this head . Nothing is more terrifying to a young man of spirit than the reputation of being " a muff ; " and even ladies , though they don't like practically a husband smelling of smoke , and making use ...
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Página 39 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The god of life, and poesy, and light — The sun in human limbs array'd, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance ; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might, And majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the deity.
Página 110 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Página 39 - There, too, the Goddess loves in stone, and fills(') The air around with beauty ; we inhale The ambrosial aspect, which, beheld, instils Part of its immortality...
Página 116 - And called her good as fair — For all God ever gave to her She kept with chary care. She kept with care her beauties rare From lovers warm and true, — For her heart was cold to all but gold, And the rich came not to woo — But honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do.
Página 116 - Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to pray ; For, as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave way ! — But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway ! In this composition we find it difficult to recognize the Willis who has written so many mere "verses of society.
Página 39 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of Life, and Poesy, and Light — The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot— the arrow bright With an Immortal's vengeance— in his eye And nostril beautiful Disdain, and Might And Majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Página 75 - Men, some to business, some to pleasure take ; But every woman is at heart a rake : Men, tome to quiet, some to public strife ; But every lady would be queen for life.
Página 62 - The fact itself, of causing the existence of a human being, is one of the most responsible actions in the range of human life.
Página 7 - ... any conjectural difference of original conformation of mind. As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up...
Página 39 - But in his delicate form — a dream of Love, Shaped by some solitary nymph, whose breast Long'd for a deathless lover from above, And madden'd in that vision — are exprest All that ideal beauty ever bless'd The mind with in its most unearthly mood, When each conception was a heavenly guest — A ray of immortality - and stood, Starlike, around, until they gathered to a god!