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 1    2| sinister methods! 'Certainly,' says Lord Bacon, 'man is of kin
 2    2|      dropped his sneer when he says,~ ~ 'If weak women go astray,~ ~ '
 3    4|  character.~ ~ * 'The brutes,' says Lord Monboddo, 'remain in
 4    4|       men tell us; but virtue, says reason, must be acquired
 5    4|   women; 'I have endeavoured,' says Lord Chesterfield, 'to gain
 6    4|    hear what an acute observer says of the great.~ ~ 'Do the
 7    4|    rank among kings; and then, says his historian, "he surpassed
 8    4|       Educate women like men,' says Rousseau, 'and the more
 9    4|       hath wife and children,' says Lord Bacon, 'hath given
10    4|       The power of the woman,' says some author, 'is her sensibility;'
11    4|              I take her body,' says Ranger.~ ~ *(2) 'Supposing
12    5| application myself.~ ~ Sophia, says Rousseau, should be as perfect
13    5|     education, when the author says of his heroine, 'that with
14    5|    brute. 'The charm of life,' says a grave philosophical reasoner,
15    5|       which wants experience,' says Sidney.~ ~ Let me now as
16    7|  sensibility. 'Can any thing,' says Knox, 'be more absurd than
17    8|      divine or human. 'Women,' says some author, I cannot recollect
18   13|    father, wounds but to heal, says reason, and our irregularities
19   13|  politics, or literature; but, says Swift, 'how naturally do
20   13|  consist 'in a squeamish ear,' says an eminent orator. 'It belongs