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Mary Wollstonecraft Vindication of the rights of woman Concordances (Hapax - words occurring once) |
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1 4| the proportion of 105 to 100.'~ ~ The necessity of polygamy, 2 4| numerous, in the proportion of 105 to 100.'~ ~ The necessity 3 11| children; if their spirits be abased and broken much by too strict 4 5| themselves, they ought to abide by the decision of their 5 3| convincing, those who have not ability to refute them.~ ~ Throughout 6 5| insolent airs, or afterwards abjectly submit; but endeavouring 7 7| earnestly recommend frequent ablutions, to dignify my advice that 8 9| chains, by sanctioning the abominable traffick. A minister is 9 13| sanctity over their lies and abominations. Impressed by such solemn 10 4| company (and examples now abound), do not acquire the same 11 7| touched the person of an absent or lost friend, which gave 12 8| manners will often lead us to absolve him where he has really 13 4| like devotion, make it absorb every meaner affection and 14 3| strengthen her constitution and abstain from enervating indulgencies, 15 3| she be termed good? She abstains, it is true, without any 16 3| her imagination, a little abstracted and exalted by grief, dwells 17 5| practically false as they are abstractly true.* Nay, it may be inferred, 18 8| honour of a woman, as it is absurdly called, be safe, she may 19 2| those that represent him abundant in mercy and willing to 20 4| proper remedies for these abuses. It is justice, not charity, 21 10| throne is built across a dark abyss, which no eye must dare 22 12| particularly allude to the numerous academies in and about London, and 23 12| close confinement, at an academy near London? unless, indeed, 24 12| of flattery to the simple accents of sincerity?~ ~ To illustrate 25 9| marry for a support, as men accept of places under government, 26 7| General Washington when he accepted of the command of the American 27 8| which every glutton may have access.~ ~ I may be told that great 28 8| earthquake or an inundation. Accidents of the first kind, however, 29 3| him to her taste, she will accommodate herself to his. She will 30 5| for where are rules of accommodation to stop? The narrow path 31 2| acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment; even while enervated by 32 9| will soon give place to accoucheur, and one proof of the former 33 4| care: and the same cause accounts for their preferring the 34 3| in sciences which require accuracy: and as to physical knowledge, 35 4| been proved by the most accurate lists of mortality, that 36 5| therefore, necessary to accustom them early to such confinement, 37 4| perfection; ever pursuing what it acknowledges to be a fleeting dream. 38 2| collectively, or frankly acknowledging the inferiority of woman, 39 5| circle of strangers, or acquaintances, a person of moderate abilities 40 11| far behind. Such a parent acquires all the rights of the most 41 12| effectually prevent the acquisition of any delicacy of mind. 42 2| be censured with petulant acrimony, because they seem to have 43 4| gentlewomen are too indolent to be actively virtuous, and are softened 44 2| that they are bound by the adamantine chain of destiny is most 45 5| advantage of gracefully adapting their looks and attitudes 46 5| in what is allowed them. Addicted in every thing to extremes, 47 1| scarcely excite surprise by adding my firm persuasion that 48 13| and interest gives vanity additional force, perpetual rivalships 49 13| By a communication, an adept may answer, with the world 50 5| feed passions which have no adequate object - if the very excess 51 8| indolent beings naturally adhere to the letter, rather than 52 11| habitually: for, from a steady adherence to a few simple principles 53 3| follow truth, and, still adhering to my first position, I 54 5| obligation to him for thus admitting love; when it is clear that 55 4| quickly scorn'd when not ador'd.'~ ~But the adoration 56 3| Rousseau respected - almost adored virtue - and yet he allowed 57 3| being? He bends to power; he adores a dark cloud, which may 58 3| aunts, and amuse herself by adorning her lifeless doll, as they 59 8| herself, when she studiously adorns her person only to be seen 60 11| dutiful daughters become adulteresses, and neglect the education 61 13| collectively considered. To adulterous lust the most sacred duties 62 2| unhappy marriage is often very advantageous to a family, and that the 63 4| pleasure, they must marry advantageously, and to this object their 64 1| for an intriguing obscure adventurer, who longed to be ranked 65 9| sublimated by panting after the adventurous march of virtue in the historic 66 3| brother was also equally adverse to writing: it was the confinement, 67 Adv| M. W. ADVERTISEMENT~ ~ When I began to write 68 2| they constantly concur in advising woman only to provide for 69 1| How could that energetic advocate for immortality argue so 70 4| of his voice, noble and affecting, gained those hearts which 71 5| any purpose, who only use affirmatives and negatives. Before you 72 5| that a woman will pardon an affront to her understanding much 73 5| understanding of the whole sex affronted, and their virtue deprived 74 1| investigations of this kind afloat in France; and should they 75 4| applied to the inhabitants of Africa, it is evident that the 76 9| human species, like the poor African slaves, to be subject to 77 5| step-mother, when she formed this after-thought of creation.~ ~ Not allowing 78 12| the morning; but in the afternoon, the girls should attend 79 12| sex become more like moral agents, my heart bounds with the 80 5| the women only serve to aggravate their own misfortunes, and 81 11| they had a thousand years ago - and not a jot more? If 82 8| receive them. - No! no! The agonized heart will cry with suffocating 83 5| more readily, and more agreeably, than the men; they are 84 2| of woman, I cannot help, agreeing with the severest satirist, 85 1| of right. Thus, as wars, agriculture, commerce, and literature, 86 4| masters and sovereigns.'~ ~ Ah! why do women, I write with 87 5| over their happiness! In aiding them to descend from an 88 5| nor virtuous. They only aimed at making them prudent; 89 9| male or female, do not alarm thyself, for though I have 90 8| the moral are still more alarming; for virtue is only a nominal 91 13| To suppose only that an all-wise and powerful Being, as good 92 3| were allowed, who, in the allegorical language of scripture, went 93 9| midwifery, decency seems to allot to them, though I am afraid 94 5| affections have always some base alloy, as permanent as is consistent 95 4| and Athenian character, he alludes to women. 'But what is more 96 6| whose trade was vice; and allurements, wanton airs. They would 97 5| that he should endeavour to alter what appears to him to be 98 3| confinement allows her no alternative. Girls and boys, in short, 99 8| a crime of which he was altogether incapable, and upon that 100 4| into their compositions, to amalgamate the gross materials; and, 101 7| accepted of the command of the American forces. The latter has always 102 4| Fine by defect, and amiably weak!'~ ~And, made by this 103 13| more severely what women do amiss, than the vicious tricks 104 5| respect for their persons amounts almost to adoration.' True! - 105 8| complains, by his promiscuous amours produces a most destructive 106 5| to others the honour of amusing them, and labour to secure 107 5| appears to be something analogous in the mind. The senses 108 7| man, with medical men, on anatomical subjects; and compared the 109 1| Contrary to the opinion of anatomists, who argue by analogy from 110 13| be allowed. Some of the ancients mention familiar daemons, 111 3| should be selected with the anecdotes of the learned pig.*~ ~ * ' 112 4| by rubbing off the rough angles of his character; and by 113 5| Chap. V.~ ~Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who 114 9| of antiquity might again animate female bosoms. - But fair 115 4| society, unless where love animates the behaviour. For this 116 13| company to themselves; and the animosity of contemporary wits is 117 4| these lines, how could Mrs. [Anna Letitia] Barbauld write 118 4| not go back to the remote annals of antiquity to trace the 119 10| one of the grand duties annexed to the female character 120 5| shaken by a breeze, and annually dies, but the oak stands 121 3| over a small domain, and answerable for their conduct to a higher 122 5| simple principles that were antecedent to the prejudices broached 123 12| thoughts are fixed with eager anticipating hopes, for, at least, to 124 5| tasteless servility after the antiques; - the soul is left out, 125 5| daily care to relieve their anxieties and prevent their wishes, 126 | anything 127 2| tickled, or he will sink into apathy; but have women so little 128 12| whose state is awkwardly aped. The boys, who live at a 129 4| of a number of swaggering apes of men, whose understandings 130 12| changed into impudence and apish grimace.~ ~ Yet, how can 131 5| that - yet virtue might apostrophize them, in the words of Hamlet - 132 1| celebrates barbarism, and apostrophizing the shade of Fabricius, 133 1| genius; and, uttering the apotheosis of savage virtues, he exalts 134 5| on justice - there is no appealing to a higher power - for 135 5| little vain mind. Florid appeals are made to heaven, and 136 8| contrivances necessary to preserve appearances, will keep her mind in that 137 Int| to be found? If by this appellation men mean to inveigh against 138 5| trifling gratification to be applauded when he should be no more! 139 5| hand tricks to gain the applause of gaping tasteless fools? ' 140 4| at maturity by twenty. I apprehend that they reason on false 141 12| only a covert fear, the apprehensive timidity of indolent slugs, 142 5| this a direct and exclusive appropriation of reason? The rights of 143 12| must add, that I highly approve of one regulation mentioned 144 5| that I have made you the arbiter of his pleasures. It may 145 13| terms, or initiated into the arcana, therefore, I may speak 146 2| criterion of morals, but one archetype for man, women appear to 147 4| ought to mount with him the arduous steeps of knowledge?-~ ~ 148 5| Each sex,' he further argues, 'should preserve its peculiar 149 5| writes with sober energy and argumentative closeness; yet sympathy 150 8| and if they can lull their Argus to sleep, they seldom think 151 12| astronomy. Reading, writing, arithmetic, natural history, and some 152 4| natural protector extends his arm, or lifts up his voice, 153 2| silently over.~ ~ Standing armies can never consist of resolute, 154 1| is, in other words, to arraign supreme wisdom; and the 155 6| materials will, in some degree, arrange themselves. The understanding, 156 9| compassion and the head active in arranging plans of usefulness, to 157 12| benches, all in their best array, the mammas listen with 158 12| concurring energies, which arrest our attention and command 159 4| spoken of with contempt, as arriving sooner at maturity than 160 2| I may be accused of arrogance; still I must declare what 161 5| their assistance in these articles, that it would be much more 162 5| when levelling their small artillery at the heart of man, is 163 12| enlarged understanding of the artist selected the solid matter, 164 6| such a man, when the very artlessness of her affection might appear 165 5| a quicksand sinks as he ascends, disappointing his hopes 166 3| daughters, view them with eyes askance, for they are rivals - rivals 167 4| women with more dignified aspects. It is true, they could 168 5| obligations; for a man is seldom assassinated when in the company of a 169 12| should appear. But this fair assemblage is not to be brought together 170 12| the Greek courtezans, will assemble the men of abilities around 171 5| husband, with as much care and assiduity as a young Circassian cultivates 172 6| recollections; one idea assimilating and explaining another, 173 12| expence with the masters and assistants, are never domesticated, 174 13| are delegated by God, or assisted by the solver of all these 175 6| degree the happy energy of associating thoughts that surprise, 176 5| strength, and prevents its assuming a natural form; just as 177 5| not of such an arrogant assumption of reason; but I contend 178 5| your reserve. They will assure you that a franker behaviour 179 5| of a house slave? 'I am astonished at the folly of many women, 180 6| explaining another, with astonishing rapidity. I do not now allude 181 12| the mammas listen with astonishment to the parrot-like prattle, 182 8| the comet never influences astronomical calculations respecting 183 12| botany, mechanics, and astronomy. Reading, writing, arithmetic, 184 4| infamy, they become infamous. Asylums and Magdalenes are not the 185 4| comparing the French and Athenian character, he alludes to 186 4| whimsical nation, say I to the Athenians, is, that a frolick of yours 187 12| the host was supposed to atone for the sins of the people, 188 5| and various circumstances attach us to our fellow creatures, 189 13| literature, or prevent their attaching themselves to a science, 190 3| prevailing prejudice is attacked, the wise will consider, 191 5| mutable prejudices, seldom attains to this greatness of mind; 192 5| metals are injured when the attraction of cohesion is disturbed.~ ~ 193 2| some sanguine writers have attributed to it. Men and women must 194 9| harmonious propriety that attunes the passions of a well-regulated 195 4| circumstances, which still further augment the absurdity and ridicule. 196 1| drawn from reason: and thus augustly supported, the more understanding 197 3| will imitate her mother or aunts, and amuse herself by adorning 198 12| ungracious aspect: not the sober austere one that commands respect 199 4| politeness of civilization authorise between man and man? And, 200 5| is out of the question, authorises many personal endearments, 201 13| would work a miracle to authorize confusion by sanctioning 202 5| would look for the fruits of autumn during the genial months 203 11| that parents, indolently availing themselves of a supposed 204 4| firmly persuaded that, on an average, the proportion between 205 4| family, she is viewed with averted looks as an intruder, an 206 5| procures or the evils it averts, if any great degree of 207 6| faults that can scarcely be avoided, unless a degree of native 208 2| in equal portions.~ ~ But avoiding, as I have hitherto done, 209 8| constitution, though he avoids the shame that pursues the 210 5| understanding.~ ~ Whilst women avow, and act up to such opinions, 211 5| a few reflections on the avowed tendency of them - the art 212 3| forgets the pleasure of an awakening passion, which might again 213 5| perchance, that I am just awaking from a lively dream.~ ~ 214 2| fleeting shadow? But, if awed by observing the improbable 215 1| strong individual character, awes simple country people into 216 7| sullied by the knowledge that awfully calls her to Thee?~ ~ I 217 12| mansion, whose state is awkwardly aped. The boys, who live 218 6| thrown by love into the background, and gay hopes, or lively 219 12| steady deportment stupidly backwards and forwards, holding up 220 1| fashion, which is but a badge of slavery, and proves that 221 13| said, disorders that have baffled the powers of medicine, 222 1| noble stem, and holds out baits to render thousands idle 223 4| for, unless there be a ballast of understanding, they will 224 13| finery, card-playing, and balls, not to mention the idle 225 5| fortune, slipping off her bandage, will smile on a well-educated 226 3| with worse than Chinese bands, and the sedentary life 227 7| modesty, though, in fact, its bane; because it is a refinement 228 4| their own wives. - Hymen banishes modesty, and chaste love 229 1| elevation is an insuperable bar to the attainment of either 230 5| that any of you can be such barbarians, so supremely wicked, as 231 12| transition, as they grow up, from barbarity to brutes to domestic tyranny 232 4| notorious is this fact, that the bare mentioning of it must bring 233 6| lasciviousness becomes barefaced, and enjoyment only the 234 6| by time, a reformation is barely possible; and actually makes 235 4| not to mention shopping, bargain-hunting, &c. &c.: and it is the 236 5| not for life, that man bargains with happiness. How few! - 237 5| attainment of virtue.~ ~ The Baroness de Stael speaks the same 238 8| produces a most destructive barrenness and contagious flagitiousness 239 3| soul. - But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands 240 2| destructive fury when there are no barriers to break its force. Women 241 1| the freedom which has been bartered for splendid slavery. The 242 5| the Haram of an Eastern bashaw.'~ ~ To render women completely 243 3| sway, for, like Turkish bashaws, they have more real power 244 5| the same parent, if not bastardized by being the younger born, 245 12| making a kite, or mending a bat, has not endeared their 246 12| new gown, or any pretty bawble, smooths Juno's angry brow.~ ~ 247 9| sincerely wish to see the bayonet converted into a pruning-hook. 248 6| the essence of genius, and beaming in its eagle eye, produce 249 4| transformed into a ferocious beast. Without knowledge there 250 12| familiarity, that sinking into beastliness, undermines the affection 251 12| frost bites, or the rain beats against the well-closed 252 5| made to heaven, and to the beauteous innocents, the fairest images 253 4| who marry to have a safe bed-fellow, that they seduce their 254 12| pig together in the same bedchamber, not to speak of the vices, 255 9| fools and chronicle small beer! No. Women might certainly 256 8| is just, allowing for the before-mentioned exceptions to the rule. 257 | beforehand 258 4| to work, and ashamed to beg? The wife, a cold-hearted, 259 5| for obedience.'~ ~ This is begging the question; for servitude 260 | beginning 261 12| children to speak fluently, nor behave gracefully. So far from 262 5| their part. But had you behaved to them with more respectful 263 8| opinion: but a woman, in behaving well, performs but half 264 8| An innocent man may be believed to have done wrong: this, 265 3| was brought up in, piously believing that wiser heads than her 266 12| and still let the sluggish bell tinkle to prayers, as during 267 5| the most sacred rights belong only to man.~ ~ The being 268 3| thought of a seat on the bench of reason.~ ~ It does not 269 12| understand? whilst, seated on benches, all in their best array, 270 4| Knowledge, industry, valour, and beneficence, trembled, were abashed, 271 2| temper, the sex is not much benefited by sacrificing solid virtues 272 1| implanted for that purpose; if benignity itself thought fit to call 273 12| child very soon contracts a benumbing indolence of mind, which 274 8| its way to light, though bespattered by weak affection, or ingenious 275 13| appearance and attendance bespoke that rank in which females 276 5| faults, she ought to learn betimes even to suffer injustice, 277 5| generalizing his ideas as he bets away his fortune, leaving 278 11| presumptuous, the darkness which bides our God from us, only respects 279 2| and Disposer, what thou bidst~ ~ 'Unargued I obey; So 280 5| brutal herd, and death is big with promises, they alone 281 3| noble ambition. To the wild billows it has been said, 'thus 282 12| parents, and husbands; for the bills of mortality are swelled 283 10| common relationship that binds the whole family on earth 284 9| romances, if read as mere biography; if the character of the 285 12| who sheds tears for the bird starved in a snare, and 286 7| cats with their kittens, birds with their young ones, & 287 2| will let them patiently bite the bridle, and not mock 288 12| her, when the sharp frost bites, or the rain beats against 289 6| rake,' why should they be bitterly censured for seeking a congenial 290 9| taking especial care that no bleak northern nook or sound incline 291 5| and mammon, endeavour to blend contradictory things. - 292 11| till esteem and love are blended together in the first affection, 293 4| the most perfect whole, by blending happily reason and sensibility 294 3| discerned. Such are the blessings of civil governments, as 295 5| on all thy virtues; and blighting in the bud thy opening faculties, 296 9| true north-east blast, that blights the tender blossoms of affection 297 10| affection is, perhaps, the blindest modification of perverse 298 5| been the abode of domestic bliss.' Such a woman ought to 299 3| designing men, till the bloated monster has lost all traces 300 9| fitting drapery upon a smooth block, their minds are only occupied 301 5| formal coxcombs, or ignorant blockheads; but will never make them 302 Int| One cause of this barren blooming I attribute to a false system 303 12| of that rustic kind which blooms on the innocent, wholesome, 304 12| her how roughly the wind blows without. And she who takes 305 12| naturally arises from the blundering interposition of well-meaning 306 12| mortality are swelled by the blunders of self-willed old women, 307 12| which I shall endeavour to blunt by repeating the words of 308 3| genius have always been blurred by the prejudices of the 309 5| weakness! Let their fears and blushes endear them. Let their confidence 310 5| strain; but attacking the boasted prerogative of man - the 311 5| address; for I shall not boggle about words, when their 312 3| conviction may not silence many boisterous disputants, yet, when any, 313 3| defence between the sexes; the boldness of one sex and the timidity 314 Int| in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, 315 4| is spent in making caps, bonnets, and the whole mischief 316 5| utter a falsehood when he borrows the language of adoration. 317 8| writings, but particularly to Boswell's Life of Johnson.~ ~ With 318 5| permitted to overleap the boundary that secures content. But 319 1| whole of our existence were bounded by our continuance in this 320 2| as it is connected with a boundless prospect and sublime hopes, 321 9| then that he should have bowels for the poor, so he can 322 1| justice by retaliation.~ ~ The box of mischief thus opened 323 4| how can they sufficiently brace their minds to discharge 324 12| else they mount to the brain, and sharpening the understanding 325 3| effusions of distempered brains; but the exuberance of fancy, 326 7| bashfulness with a sort of bravado, and glorying in their shame, 327 5| struck deep their root, and braved many a storm. - Is the mind 328 5| stands firm, and for ages braves the storm!~ ~ Were we, indeed, 329 1| of society it rears its brazen front, will ever undermine 330 13| chapters and psalms before breakfast, never touching a silly 331 12| windows which do not admit a breath of air to tell her how roughly 332 13| indefeasible earthly sovereignty breathed into man by the Master of 333 12| had once put on coat and breeches, he was allowed to shift 334 3| reason and philosophy, we breed them to useless arts, which 335 13| Many men attend to the breeding of horses, and overlook 336 2| them patiently bite the bridle, and not mock them with 337 5| no stronger motives, no brighter reward? Must they always 338 3| children have her love, and her brightest hopes are beyond the grave, 339 4| either made fine ladies, brimful of sensibility, and teeming 340 12| not destroy, abilities, by bringing them forward too hastily: 341 2| As when she touch'd the brink of all we hate.'~ ~ In what 342 5| antecedent to the prejudices broached by power; and it is ten 343 3| invert the law of nature, and broaches a doctrine pregnant with 344 9| their benevolence on the broadest basis; for the reading of 345 5| excesses, when once they broke loose from authority. - 346 12| as a Christian.~ ~ This brood of folly shews how mistaken 347 7| shame-facedness was rudely brushed off; a virtue would have 348 10| termed it, frequently very brutish: for it eradicates every 349 Int| understanding of the sex has been so bubbled by this specious homage, 350 Int| word masculine is only a bugbear: there is little reason 351 10| smile at the sight of the bugbears at which they started during 352 1| The civilization of the bulk of the people of Europe 353 5| necessary to make her dependence burdensome, but only to let her feel 354 5| believe them.~ ~ * Vide Mr. Burke.~ ~ It is impossible to 355 5| reason! is employed rather to burnish than to snap her chains.~ ~ * 356 7| fluttering round a candle, burns its wings.~ ~ But, if the 357 13| produces those phosphoric bursts which only mimick in the 358 5| of lifting the smallest burthens, and would blush to be thought 359 5| hide her talents under a bushel. Let things take their natural 360 13| Their mother, a widow, was busy in the mean time in keeping 361 13| consequential solemnity, which Butler's caricature of a dissenter, 362 12| circle under restraint, these butterflies long to flutter at large, 363 9| give to the needy and to buy books. For it is not pleasant 364 8| sentiments.* Because each by-stander may have his own prejudices, 365 5| radiate about her, and the by-standers are almost induced to fancy 366 12| Is not their folly the by-word of the libertines, who relax 367 5| vegetable life, and invigorate a cabbage, or blush in a rose. The 368 12| prattle, uttered in solemn cadences, with all the pomp of ignorance 369 3| roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its 370 2| superior order, accidentally caged in a human body. Following 371 4| prerogatives? Confined then in cages like the feathered race, 372 12| tartman, from whom he caught a cake, to devour it with a cattish 373 1| roused by the sight of human calamity, dare to attack human authority, 374 8| shadows produced a false calculation, because their length depends 375 8| the sentiments, that have calmed my soul, when watching the 376 1| of man. These are bitter calumnies, yet they reached one of 377 8| despised. I speak not of the calumny of the moment, which hovers 378 8| and amidst the whining candour or hissings of envy, erect 379 5| pursuing the bubble fame in the cannon's mouth' that was to blow 380 1| perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated 381 5| women is a practical reason, capacitating them artfully to discover 382 13| way were far above their capacities, or devotional, they neither 383 12| place to another, richly caparisoned. Yet, mixing in the giddy. 384 11| to have a kind of animal capriciousness when they merely reside 385 4| time is spent in making caps, bonnets, and the whole 386 6| good-humoured docility: women are captivated by easy manners; a gentleman-like 387 2| Sophia is, undoubtedly, a captivating one, though it appears to 388 13| visiting to display finery, card-playing, and balls, not to mention 389 11| she had lost more money at cards, the night before, than 390 6| the bondage of folly, how carefully ought we to guard the mind 391 5| company, when he is tired of caressing her. - What has she to reflect 392 13| foolishly and ridiculously they caricatured human nature, just opinions 393 1| not allow a man to be a carnivorous animal. And, carried away 394 12| the morning, wet or dry, carrying his books, and his dinner, 395 13| country. He wished to crush Carthage, not to save Rome, but to 396 5| drag about their little carts: girls, on the other hand, 397 5| when they only build airy castles in a future world to compensate 398 5| not the winds of heaven casually scatter many useful seeds 399 12| brings forward a fearful catalogue of the crimes which their 400 10| unconditional obedience, is the catch-word of tyrants of every description, 401 2| instinctive glance, that catches proportions, and decides 402 5| just; and remember that Catharine Macaulay was an example 403 12| more irreverent than the cathedral service as it is now performed 404 13| seem indeed to resemble Cato's most unjust love for his 405 7| Children very early see cats with their kittens, birds 406 12| understanding, in spite of sensual cavillers, reserves to itself the 407 5| which he rings round without ceasing - in a more decorous manner, 408 1| state of nature, Rousseau celebrates barbarism, and apostrophizing 409 13| the sole ambition of woman centres in beauty, and interest 410 9| human kindness, to silence Cerberus, and talk of the interest 411 9| separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that 412 2| would be to out Quixote Cervantes, and equally offend against 413 9| a war. or any wild goose chace, is, as the vulgar use the 414 1| away the wheat with the chaff, without waiting to inquire 415 9| if one half of mankind be chained to its bottom by fate, for 416 3| agreeable to him, instead of challenging his passion, The violence 417 8| evasively feeding hope with the chameleon's food: thus does politeness 418 12| puerilities, affect to be the champions of religion. - Religion, 419 4| reason and humanity; and changing situations, might have acted 420 5| contradictions.~ ~ Mrs. Chapone's Letters are written with 421 13| manner; and read their chapters and psalms before breakfast, 422 9| society, considered as the characteristic of that society, or only 423 12| cunning which disgracefully characterizes the female mind - and I 424 9| apparent, or varnishes the chariot of some female favourite 425 4| abuses. It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the 426 6| unintelligible sounds of the charmer - reason, charm he never 427 3| preface to his biographical chart, that the majority of great 428 8| calmly see them drop into the chasm of perdition, that yawns 429 9| very interesting, and the chastened dignity with which a mother 430 8| and peace of mind, of the chaster part of the sex, is undermined 431 10| up as a scarecrow. When chastisement is necessary, though they 432 3| together listening to the idle chat of weak nurses, or to attend 433 12| often only in quest of the cheapest school, and the master could 434 13| most dishonest tricks to cheat silly women out of the money - 435 4| happy if some circumstances checked their passion; if the recollection 436 12| and humanity curve the cheek, or vain is the sparkling 437 4| without art,~ ~ They spring to CHEER the sense, and GLAD the 438 2| have afforded matters for cheerful converse, and innocent caresses 439 4| good temper. That habitual cheerfulness, termed good-humour, is, 440 3| that a defect can, by any chemical process of reasoning, become 441 5| idea? She can only sooth or chide them; render them insolent 442 8| acquiring what those virtues chiefly aim at, the confidence and 443 1| emerging out of barbarism, chiefs and priests, touching the 444 4| proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.' I say the same of 445 5| had early imbibed these chilling suspicions, and repeated 446 3| one of Rousseau's wild chimeras.*~ ~ * 'Researches into 447 2| is an insult to reason? China is not the only country 448 3| cramped with worse than Chinese bands, and the sedentary 449 4| whilst hereditary power chokes the affections and nips 450 13| But, can the professors of Christianity ward off that imputation? 451 13| violent disorders, but of chronical diseases, it must be brought 452 9| all to suckle fools and chronicle small beer! No. Women might 453 3| innocence smile on their chubby cheeks, and as they grow 454 13| for souls in purgatory, or churches where they can display crutches, 455 12| something more noble than the churlish gratification of appetite.~ ~ 456 5| and assiduity as a young Circassian cultivates her's, to fit 457 12| noisy scenes, and crowded circles? I should answer, because 458 7| table when the glass has circulated freely. But, it is vain 459 5| necessary to attack it in a more circumstantial manner, and make the application 460 5| language as the lady just cited, with more enthusiasm. Her 461 12| trading part of this great city.~ ~ How much time is lost 462 4| from that reciprocation of civility which the dictates of humanity 463 4| alive to the sentiments that civilize life, than the square-elbowed 464 4| When Richardson* makes Clarissa tell Lovelace that he had 465 1| form of government. But, clashing interests soon losing their 466 2| understanding; and the graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, 467 2| which is to ferment the clay, is not given in equal portions.~ ~ 468 9| be torn up, and the woods cleared by fire and sword, I do 469 3| concurrence of both we derive the clearest light and the most perfect 470 13| few simple principles, and clearing away the rubbish which obscured 471 2| vigour to the faculties, and clearness to the judgment. In the 472 9| tutors of sons, though even clerical tutors are not always treated 473 12| to bring forward these clever boys, the health and morals 474 4| most trifling dangers they cling to their support, with parasitical 475 13| given as proofs; but the clinging affection of ignorance has 476 7| affection; because love always clings round the idea of home.~ ~ 477 2| concomitant of genius. - Who can clip its wing? But that grand 478 3| which her trembling hand closed, may still see how she subdues 479 5| energy and argumentative closeness; yet sympathy and benevolence 480 7| to diffuse an encircling cloudy obscurity to shut out even 481 3| order of creation, when, co-operating with the Father of spirits, 482 12| nevertheless, keep her coachman and horses whole hours waiting 483 1| Let there be then no coercion established in society, 484 2| vulgar tale of Mahomet's coffin; they have neither the unerring 485 12| strengthened by pondering cogitations, and deadened by thoughtless 486 13| which do not come under the cognizance of your senses, in the same 487 5| injured when the attraction of cohesion is disturbed.~ ~ Tell me, 488 3| has produced for children, coincides with me in opinion; I shall 489 12| seen also an eye glanced coldly over a most exquisite picture, 490 4| sufficiently deal in general ideas, collected by impassioned thinking, 491 4| instruction, and catch the colour of the atmosphere they breathe. 492 6| individual character, give the colouring. Over this subtile electric 493 12| and receiving force by the combination. Judgment must reside on 494 12| to contrive some way of combining a public and private education. 495 1| of civilization. But such combustible materials cannot long be 496 8| The eccentric orbit of the comet never influences astronomical 497 5| a just description of a comfortable couple. 'And yet you must 498 1| obtain, the pleasure of commanding flattering sycophants, and 499 12| the sober austere one that commands respect whilst it inspires 500 1| Thus, as wars, agriculture, commerce, and literature, expand