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Alphabetical [« »] weaker 9 weakest 3 weakly 2 weakness 60 weaknesses 5 wealth 14 wealthy 1 | Frequency [« »] 62 passion 60 exercise 60 subject 60 weakness 59 instead 59 see 58 part | Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the rights of woman Concordances weakness |
Chap.
1 Int| synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings who 2 Int| assert, that this artificial weakness produces a propensity to 3 2| little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, 4 2| is but a civil term for weakness. For if it be allowed that 5 2| gives this appearance of weakness to females, we may instance 6 2| her husband's affection? Weakness may excite tenderness, and 7 2| dependence, the support of weakness that loves, because it wants 8 3| graces, and from that lovely weakness the source of their undue 9 3| work, in order to aid her weakness; and these movements are 10 3| sometimes boast of their weakness, cunningly obtaining power 11 3| power by playing on the weakness of men; and they may well 12 3| them. In proportion to his weakness, he is played upon by designing 13 3| when they cherish or affect weakness under the name of delicacy, 14 4| over, and despise, the very weakness they cherish. Often do they 15 4| persuaded, the foundation of the weakness of character ascribed to 16 4| obtained by their charms and weakness:~ ~ 'Fine by defect, and 17 4| And, made by this amiable weakness entirely dependent, excepting 18 4| in force as long as the weakness of women caused the word 19 4| a physical or accidental weakness of faculties, time alone 20 5| whether it was the woman's weakness that yielded to his superior 21 5| from being ashamed of their weakness, they glory in it; their 22 5| reason, instead of resting my weakness on the broad shoulders of 23 5| as her own timidity and weakness; she has nothing in her 24 5| take advantage of their weakness! Let their fears and blushes 25 5| be incompatible with the weakness of her sex. In her style 26 5| be merely the refuge of weakness or wild fanaticism, and 27 6| contemptuously insults the very weakness he fostered. Or, supposing 28 6| the desperate effort of weakness flying from reflection as 29 7| modesty a pharisaical cloak of weakness. And I am persuaded that 30 7| habitual depravity, such weakness of mind, that it is vain 31 7| doubt whether sensibility or weakness led her to her husband's 32 7| still further, for neither weakness nor sensibility will gratify 33 7| reason, and supported thy weakness, has betrayed thee! In a 34 7| he that triumphed in thy weakness is now pursuing new conquests; 35 8| by a sense of her former weakness, whom a neighbouring gentleman 36 8| though they afford envious weakness a fairer mark to shoot at, 37 8| all the causes of female weakness, as well as depravity, which 38 8| its father's and mother's weakness.~ ~ Contrasting the humanity 39 9| they cause, and the vicious weakness they cherish, by only inciting 40 9| sucks in.~ ~ Proud of their weakness, however, they must always 41 10| ignorant calculations of weakness. Parents often love their 42 11| render these demands of weakness and ignorance more binding, 43 11| wisest man in the world. This weakness, for a weakness it is, though 44 11| world. This weakness, for a weakness it is, though the epithet 45 11| obeyed, is obeyed from sheer weakness, or from motives that degrade 46 11| self-defence, peculiar to ignorant weakness; resembling that instinct, 47 11| some degree account for the weakness of women; for girls, from 48 12| himself the affection which weakness and virtue had made him 49 12| for a man. But the sexual weakness that makes woman depend 50 12| great power, raised by the weakness of her sex; and in proportion 51 12| ridiculed, and every little weakness exposed, only because they 52 12| character throughout life. The weakness of the mother will be visited 53 12| obstinate perverseness of weakness. For it is dangerous to 54 13| especially to prove, that the weakness of mind and body, which 55 13| duty of their sex: for when weakness of body will not permit 56 13| suckle their children, and weakness of mind makes them spoil 57 13| glaring instance of the weakness which proceeds from ignorance, 58 13| instance of that feminine weakness of character, often produced 59 13| little sensibility, and great weakness, will produce a strong sexual 60 13| consequence, a sense of their own weakness should first make them feel