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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