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Alphabetical [« »] sense 82 senseless 1 senses 23 sensibility 67 sensible 24 sensitive 1 sensual 18 | Frequency [« »] 69 well 68 both 68 modesty 67 sensibility 66 husband 65 degree 65 nor | Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the rights of woman Concordances sensibility |
Chap.
1 Int| elegancy of mind, exquisite sensibility, and sweet docility of manners, 2 1| monarchy, that men of lively sensibility have almost uttered blasphemy 3 1| understanding, till men of sensibility doubt whether the expansion 4 2| effusions of overweening sensibility, I shall only observe, that 5 2| husband know the extent of her sensibility or affection. Voluptuous 6 3| and false descriptions of sensibility, have been early entangled 7 3| proud of her delicacy and sensibility. She thought a distinguishing 8 3| arose from, her exquisite sensibility: for it is difficult to 9 4| she should be so, and her sensibility will naturally lead her 10 4| senses, delicately termed sensibility and are blown about by every 11 4| anxious, their over exercised sensibility not only renders them uncomfortable 12 4| acquire. This overstretched sensibility naturally relaxes the other 13 4| because it is by their sensibility that they obtain present 14 4| blending happily reason and sensibility into one character.~ ~ And 15 4| character.~ ~ And what is sensibility? 'Quickness of sensation; 16 4| exercise of instinct and sensibility may be the step, which they 17 4| must again repeat, that sensibility is not reason.~ ~ * The 18 4| says some author, 'is her sensibility;' and men, not aware of 19 4| constantly employ their sensibility will have most: for example; 20 4| composers.* Yet, when the sensibility is thus increased at the 21 4| particularly acts on female sensibility, and this sympathy has been 22 4| is oftener fostered than sensibility by the mode of education, 23 4| inconstancy, which overstrained sensibility naturally produces.~ ~ * 24 4| to his relations; and her sensibility not rising to humanity, 25 4| would not have had that sensibility, of which self is the centre, 26 4| of momentary flashes of sensibility, but of affections. And, 27 4| fine ladies, brimful of sensibility, and teeming with capricious 28 4| the natural selfishness of sensibility expanded by reflection, 29 4| been able to make, women of sensibility are the most unfit for this 30 4| extremes that people of sensibility alternately fall into; always 31 5| offspring of reason; but when sensibility is nurtured at the expence 32 5| that forcibly held it; and sensibility, the play-thing of outward 33 5| to the heart. People of sensibility have seldom good tempers. 34 5| in reasoning arose from sensibility, and sensibility to their 35 5| arose from sensibility, and sensibility to their charms women are 36 5| opinions. I war only with the sensibility that led him to degrade 37 5| why let us then indulge sensibility, and laugh at the severity 38 5| feelings, and that parade of sensibility which boys and girls should 39 5| forbidding; and that men of sensibility desire in every woman soft 40 5| powerful spell worked on the sensibility of a young encomiast. 'What 41 5| the first fair purposes of sensibility - till virtue, arising rather 42 6| know how to work on their sensibility, whilst the modest merit 43 6| quickly learn to despise the sensibility that had been excited and 44 7| Modesty! Sacred offspring of sensibility and reason! - true delicacy 45 7| which only exercise the sensibility; and the heart made to beat 46 7| her education the slave of sensibility, is required, on the most 47 7| occasions, to resist that sensibility. 'Can any thing,' says Knox, ' 48 7| leave it in doubt whether sensibility or weakness led her to her 49 7| for neither weakness nor sensibility will gratify him - he looks 50 7| of? Truly the creature of sensibility was surprised by her sensibility 51 7| sensibility was surprised by her sensibility into folly - into vice;* 52 7| when they merely vanquish sensibility. The real conquest is that 53 7| affection, and not merely to sensibility, though she had her share. - 54 7| the understanding damp the sensibility.~ ~ It may be thought that 55 7| spurts of activity which sensibility produces; but as these flights 56 7| cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by 57 8| maintain; whilst the man of sensibility, who thus, perhaps, complains, 58 9| nothing so painfully sharpens sensibility as such a fall in life.~ ~ 59 9| some worthy woman, whose sensibility has been rendered painfully 60 9| surcharged with the dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty 61 12| nurses them with a parade of sensibility, when sick, will suffer 62 12| wise men, who possessed sensibility, is notorious; I shall only 63 12| hold her affection whose sensibility was confined to one sex, 64 12| it requires sense to turn sensibility into the broad channel of 65 13| supposed to possess more sensibility, and even humanity, than 66 13| known many weak women whose sensibility was entirely engrossed by 67 13| I know that a little sensibility, and great weakness, will