Thoughts on Self-culture Addressed to WomenSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1872 - 379 pagine |
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... give way : in everything she is subordinate and powerless . But if we look more closely , we find her armed with a power which man can neither cast off nor abridge , for it springs from her natural posi- tion towards him , which cannot ...
... give way : in everything she is subordinate and powerless . But if we look more closely , we find her armed with a power which man can neither cast off nor abridge , for it springs from her natural posi- tion towards him , which cannot ...
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... give it a right direction . Woe , at such a time , to the country that trusts to the cold teaching of professors , or the speculations of philosophy , to inspire that generous virtue , that moral purity of wisdom , which should be ...
... give it a right direction . Woe , at such a time , to the country that trusts to the cold teaching of professors , or the speculations of philosophy , to inspire that generous virtue , that moral purity of wisdom , which should be ...
Pagina 8
... give to their sons ; remembering , that if the depressed condition of woman in any age or country reflects dis- honour upon the men of that country , the shame must be shared by the mothers whose sons have grown up under their influence ...
... give to their sons ; remembering , that if the depressed condition of woman in any age or country reflects dis- honour upon the men of that country , the shame must be shared by the mothers whose sons have grown up under their influence ...
Pagina 10
... give for remaining indifferent to the progress of knowledge , and ignorant of the social relations amidst which they live ? What was blameless in a former generation , is culpable in them ; and in as much as the modern system of ...
... give for remaining indifferent to the progress of knowledge , and ignorant of the social relations amidst which they live ? What was blameless in a former generation , is culpable in them ; and in as much as the modern system of ...
Pagina 11
... give to women the high excitement of active life , or the stirring aims of public ambition ; if , then , they would rise to a less contracted sphere of existence , it must be by the expansion of their own minds , and the better ...
... give to women the high excitement of active life , or the stirring aims of public ambition ; if , then , they would rise to a less contracted sphere of existence , it must be by the expansion of their own minds , and the better ...
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