Thoughts on Self-culture Addressed to WomenSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1872 - 379 pagine |
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... least , has been so often treated before . Works on female education have been multiplied of late years , and many also have been written on the position and duties of women ; but none , as far as they know , have attempted to show how ...
... least , has been so often treated before . Works on female education have been multiplied of late years , and many also have been written on the position and duties of women ; but none , as far as they know , have attempted to show how ...
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... least worthy among women , in whose hands the possession of natural influence is most easily perverted to effect their subjugation . In a corrupt state of society , where the exercise of this kind of power is an object of ambition ...
... least worthy among women , in whose hands the possession of natural influence is most easily perverted to effect their subjugation . In a corrupt state of society , where the exercise of this kind of power is an object of ambition ...
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... least , by none . Our object is to indicate the errors , the involuntary short - comings of those , whose good intentions might have produced useful results , had not education and society conspired to render their moral tone weak , and ...
... least , by none . Our object is to indicate the errors , the involuntary short - comings of those , whose good intentions might have produced useful results , had not education and society conspired to render their moral tone weak , and ...
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... least humble in their ignorance ; but when the semblance of knowledge spreads , there is a self - sufficient jactance in those who have skimmed its surface , which shows that the mind has not been disciplined or matured , though the ...
... least humble in their ignorance ; but when the semblance of knowledge spreads , there is a self - sufficient jactance in those who have skimmed its surface , which shows that the mind has not been disciplined or matured , though the ...
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... least , regular occupation , and some pursuit of knowledge ; in the latter , all semblance of study is thrown aside , and every aim directed towards the paltry triumphs of worldly vanity . In the former , amusement was kept secondary ...
... least , regular occupation , and some pursuit of knowledge ; in the latter , all semblance of study is thrown aside , and every aim directed towards the paltry triumphs of worldly vanity . In the former , amusement was kept secondary ...
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