Proverbial Folk-loreFolcroft Library Editions, 1976 - 173 pagine |
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... reason . And thus much , I think , may be admitted at starting , that women are mostly either better or worse than men , more frequently the former ; while that , at the same time , a really bad woman is very bad indeed . Jezebel ...
... reason . And thus much , I think , may be admitted at starting , that women are mostly either better or worse than men , more frequently the former ; while that , at the same time , a really bad woman is very bad indeed . Jezebel ...
Pagina 6
... reason , and surely that is reason enough ! Now absolute rulers all women like to be ; and very often very excellent rulers they make ; and rule they will If not by hook then by crook . as says that old and most mysterious traveller's ...
... reason , and surely that is reason enough ! Now absolute rulers all women like to be ; and very often very excellent rulers they make ; and rule they will If not by hook then by crook . as says that old and most mysterious traveller's ...
Pagina 71
... reason ? When it does prosper no man calls its treason ! One more English saying I may mention , before concluding this chapter , like the former , with Trans- atlantic examples . It is that old Kentish paradox , Tenterden steeple is ...
... reason ? When it does prosper no man calls its treason ! One more English saying I may mention , before concluding this chapter , like the former , with Trans- atlantic examples . It is that old Kentish paradox , Tenterden steeple is ...
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