Chap.

 1  Int|             treatise, therefore, on female rights and manners, the
 2  Int|           it is observable that the female in point of strength is,
 3  Int|     degraded by mistaken notions of female excellence, that I do not
 4    2|           written on the subject of female education and manners from
 5    2|             is true. Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and
 6    2|        because, with respect to the female character, obedience is
 7    2|          that the whole tendency of female education ought to be directed
 8    2|           be the consequence if the female mind were more enlarged:
 9    2|             of virtue? Why must the female mind be tainted by coquetish
10    2|             the received opinion of female excellence, separated by
11    2|              confined by mistake in female frames. But if it be not
12    3|      mistaken notions of beauty and female excellence; nor should girls
13    3|        which is seldom found in the female sex. As soon as she was
14    3|           upon the qualities of the female sex that our own domestic
15    3|    respecting the first dawn of the female character, I will venture
16    3|           to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore
17    3|           And if the dignity of the female soul be as disputable as
18    3|         that the poisoned source of female vices and follies, if it
19    3|          the same; yet the fanciful female character, so prettily drawn
20    3|          organized, that wealth and female softness equally tend to
21    4|             has the false system of female manners been reared, which
22    4| understanding more difficult in the female than the male world.~ ~
23    4|         reason. The grand source of female folly and vice has ever
24    4|      prevent the cultivation of the female understanding: - yet virtue
25    4|             creature; but the whole female sex are, till their character
26    4|         propriety be applied to the female sex. I refer the sagacious
27    4|            man particularly acts on female sensibility, and this sympathy
28    4|     humiliating situation, a docile female may remain some time, with
29    4|           must notice a few.~ ~ The female understanding has often
30    4|            that I wish to guard the female heart by exercising the
31    4|          short, the whole tenour of female education (the education
32    4|       sickly - and false notions of female excellence make them proud
33    5|          modern publications on the female character and education,
34    5|            address, peculiar to the female sex, is a very equitable
35    5|            smile on a well-educated female, and bring in her hand an
36    5|            every human quality into female meekness and artificial
37    5|             opinions respecting the female character, and the behaviour
38    5|              that a gentle innocent female is an object that comes
39    5|           morals and manners of the female world.~ ~ His easy familiar
40    5|             of character out of the female world. Yet what good end
41    5|          with respect to duplicity, female softness, delicacy of constitution;
42    5|           written on the subject of female manners - it would, in fact,
43    5|           pointedly levelled at the female mind. And it is the sentiments
44    6|          more baneful effect on the female than the male character,
45    6|          Where love is duty, on the female side,~ ~ 'On theirs mere
46    7|           botany, consistently with female delicacy? - was accused
47    7|           food of joy!~ ~ * Male or female, for the world contains
48    7|          stare insultingly at every female they meet? Can it be termed
49    7|             of decency are sisters, female intimates, or ladies and
50    7|           they did their sisters or female acquaintance.~ ~ Besides,
51    8|       strenuously inculcated on the female world, were specious poisons,
52    8|     deplored as the grand source of female depravity, the impossibility
53    8|      insidiously undermined, in the female world, by the attention
54    8|      inculcated as the sum total of female duty; if rules to regulate
55    8|              that all the causes of female weakness, as well as depravity,
56    8|         prowler, that he refines on female softness. Something more
57    8|       beings, to sigh for more than female languor.~ ~ To satisfy this
58    8|           be one means of reforming female manners, and stopping an
59    9|       antiquity might again animate female bosoms. - But fair and softly,
60    9|              gentle reader, male or female, do not alarm thyself, for
61    9|       varnishes the chariot of some female favourite who looks down
62   10|         grand duties annexed to the female character by nature, this
63   10|     arguments for strengthening the female understanding, if it were
64   11|        necessity of cultivating the female understanding, it is but
65   12|     disgracefully characterizes the female mind - and I fear will ever
66   12| understanding had not been led from female duties by literature, nor
67   12|            the private intrigues of female favourites have produced;
68   12|            ever drew a more exalted female character than Rousseau?
69   12|         which any advice respecting female learning, commonly produces,
70   12|             of inferiority must the female faculties have rusted when
71   12|        particularly relative to the female world, because I think the
72   12|          world, because I think the female world oppressed; yet the
73   13|  Improvement~ ~That a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally
74   13|              The mighty business of female life is to please, and restrained
75   13|         none at all.~ ~ In fact the female mind has been so totally
76   13|         seldom known a good male or female servant that was not particularly
77   13|             themselves agreeable. A female beauty, and a male wit,
78   13|          found in the male than the female world, and that men have
79   13|       expected from a REVOLUTION in female manners, appears, at least,
80   13|      believe, the greater number of female follies proceed; and the
81   13|   conspicuous in the dissenting and female world, and was produced
82   13|       result from an improvement in female manners, towards the general
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