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501 13| sins against reason of commission as well as of omission; 502 8| woman of honour may not commit with impunity.' She then 503 5| with my fairest gifts, and committed to your protection; behold 504 12| also be chosen by a select committee, in each parish, to whom 505 3| any great struggle, from committing gross crimes; but how does 506 12| of our gentry and wealthy commoners are mostly educated at these 507 12| To render also the social compact truly equitable, and in 508 2| wishes or thoughts to such a comparatively mean field of action; that 509 7| ideas, and set to work to compare them, in order to acquire 510 13| out both by tones, and apt comparisons with pathetic incidents 511 5| in rain. And should they compassionately invigorate his sight and 512 4| comprehension of mind, are scarcely compatible with that pliant urbanity 513 9| organized which does not compel men and women to discharge 514 5| pleasure of the former, and compels him to endeavour to please 515 5| castles in a future world to compensate for the disappointments 516 8| they would not seek for a compensation in vanity, for the self-denial 517 5| answers to hasty words, complaining as seldom as possible, and 518 8| sensibility, who thus, perhaps, complains, by his promiscuous amours 519 6| void; consequently, nervous complaints, and all the vapourish train 520 5| bashaw.'~ ~ To render women completely insignificant, he adds - ' 521 4| the nearest road to the completion of their wishes. The respect 522 13| of each other, till by a complication of little contrivances, 523 5| convert this reproach into a compliment; their lips and eyes have 524 4| example; poets, painters, and composers.* Yet, when the sensibility 525 5| did the substance which composes our thinking being, after 526 5| spark of nature out of their composition, melting every human quality 527 4| descriptions pour it into their compositions, to amalgamate the gross 528 5| reflection, we are led to compound with our duty, and we conclude 529 5| mean to use a word that comprehends more than chastity, the 530 13| the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought 531 13| what the Supreme Wisdom has concealed.~ ~ Probably you would not 532 5| display of her charms, she conceals them; but in concealing 533 5| been very superficial and conceited, and far from pleasing in 534 8| mothers, though they may conceive; so that the rich sensualist, 535 5| sketch. 'It is easy to be conceived, that if male children be 536 4| imagination, love alone concentrates these ethereal beams.~ ~ 537 9| declare, so vulgar are my conceptions, that I know not what is 538 5| they ought indeed to act in concert, but they should not be 539 5| yet there is a degree of concise elegance conspicuous in 540 5| surprise even the person who concocted them.~ ~ I know that a kind 541 4| breathe. This respectable concourse, I contend, men and women, 542 9| grace; surely you would not condemn them all to suckle fools 543 5| religion will not have this condensing energy, unless it be founded 544 5| with the lullaby strains of condescending endearment! Let them be 545 Int| feminine phrases, which the men condescendingly use to soften our slavish 546 5| of influence that could conduce to their virtue, or your 547 5| difficult to say which of them conduces the most to it: each follows 548 12| the various attitudes so conducive to health.* The pure animal 549 5| of past times. The very confessions which mere children were 550 5| friend to whom he could confide the care of his children' 551 1| and should they lead to a confirmation of my principles, when your 552 4| acted heroically, strongly confirmed me in the opinion that trifling 553 5| be subjected to continual conflicts; but give their activity 554 13| clear that men who will not conform to the law of reason, and 555 3| the infancy of children, conformable to this intimation, should 556 3| to judge for herself; but conformed, as a dependent creature 557 13| powers of medicine, work in conformity to the light of reason? 558 2| gentle. But when forbearance confounds right and wrong, it ceases 559 4| others, instead of roughly confronting them.~ ~ But, treating of 560 6| be very sublime; and the confused consciousness of humility 561 4| of divinity, the tie that connects the creature with the Creator; 562 12| some shady lane where they conned their lesson; or, of some 563 5| form a much more permanent connexion between married people than 564 7| pleasures or schemes to conquer hearts.* The regulation 565 1| Fabricius, he forgets that, in conquering the world, the Romans never 566 7| her flame;~ ~ For custom conquers fear and shame.' - [John] 567 5| room of things. Our own conscience is the most enlightened 568 12| great good luck, a sensible, conscientious man, would starve before 569 10| mind to fulfil that one conscientiously. It then loses the venerable 570 1| been so steeped in the vat consecrated by authority, that the faint 571 7| a dream of passion thou consented to wander through flowery 572 4| And flowery wreaths consenting lovers wear.~ ~ Flowers, 573 13| bustle about trifles and consequential solemnity, which Butler' 574 4| have some force with every considerate benevolent heart. Girls 575 1| communicate happiness, he considers evil as positive, and the 576 8| guilt: whom they inexorably consign to the exercise of arts 577 7| modesty to lose, when they consigned themselves to infamy; for 578 9| may courteously be called, consisting in multiplying dependents 579 12| conversation, the common source of consolation is, that such women seldom 580 5| grown up, to advise, to console us, to render our lives 581 5| enabling them to act with consonant independence and dignity, 582 12| streams of vice to corrupt the constituent parts of the body politic; 583 12| social affections that are to constitute the happiness of life as 584 1| great subordination of rank constitutes its power, is highly injurious 585 5| incur their hate. Even the constraint she lays them under, if 586 13| you know any thing of the construction of the human frame? If not, 587 11| families, who never think of consulting their inclination, or providing 588 3| the body; their time is consumed in sloth or trifles, and 589 9| dew of sensibility, that consumes the beauty to which it at 590 1| sensualist, and then makes the contagion which his unnatural state 591 5| perhaps, no aphorism ever contained a more paradoxical assertion. 592 9| such a dreary scene to the contemplative mind. For it is in the most 593 13| themselves; and the animosity of contemporary wits is proverbial.~ ~ Is 594 6| surly suspicious tyrant, who contemptuously insults the very weakness 595 1| of morality, and I have contended, that to render the human 596 Int| a cursory account of the contents of the work it introduces.~ ~ 597 1| independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were 598 5| known; nor will any of us contradict the assertion. All our attainments, 599 5| subjects, and point out the contradictions.~ ~ Mrs. Chapone's Letters 600 8| and mother's weakness.~ ~ Contrasting the humanity of the present 601 3| the shackles of matter, contributes to, instead of disturbing, 602 12| to morality, would be to contrive some way of combining a 603 9| multiplying dependents and contriving taxes which grind the poor 604 10| shape it would reign without controul or inquiry. Its throne is 605 13| condition, cannot, I think, be controverted. To laugh at them then, 606 5| but knowledge beyond the conveniences of life would be a curse.~ ~ 607 5| virtue is an affair of convention. How could Rousseau dare 608 7| in nurseries, schools, or convents. I cannot recollect without 609 13| touch or a word.~ ~ I am not conversant with the technical terms, 610 13| sensible men, with whom I have conversed on the subject, allowed 611 5| should be very ready to convert this reproach into a compliment; 612 9| wish to see the bayonet converted into a pruning-hook. I only 613 12| itself the privilege of conveying pure joy to the heart.~ ~ 614 5| it is like the sense it conveys, strong and clear.~ ~ I 615 5| carry before it these sober convictions; and it is for the day, 616 11| even when matured reason convinces the child that his father 617 7| meanings, which shake the convivial table when the glass has 618 8| of love that in various convolutions entangle the heart.~ ~ This 619 5| experience would only have cooled. An early acquaintance with 620 5| of some modern pictures, copied with tasteless servility 621 5| much sooner, girls began to coquet, and talked, unreproved, 622 4| distinction, and superannuated coquettes are commonly of the same 623 5| appearance, and yet very coquettish in fact: she does not make 624 Int| and gaming, I shall most cordially join in the cry; but if 625 8| people who habitually take cordials to raise their spirits, 626 8| humility, and twists the cords of love that in various 627 1| a measure rotten at the core may be expedient. Thus expediency 628 2| truth and fortitude, the corner stones of all human virtue, 629 8| Pharisees, who prayed at the corners of streets, to be seen of 630 1| graces, of politeness. Every corps is a chain of despots, who, 631 12| established in society, corrode all private, and blast all 632 5| Moses's beautiful, poetical cosmogony, and the account of the 633 4| general, to dress them in a costly manner - and, whether this 634 9| worship the very parade which costs them so dear. This is mere 635 13| darkness involved all his counsels!~ ~ I know that many devout 636 9| the field and march and counter-march like soldiers, or wrangle 637 4| not sophisticated; or, a counterpoise of judgment is not acquired, 638 7| assurance.*~ ~ * 'Such is the country-maiden's fright,~ ~ When first 639 1| The indolent puppet of a court first becomes a luxurious 640 5| Then slaves to those who courted us before.'~ ~ Dryden.~ ~ 641 4| rank they are placed in, by courtesy? Women, commonly called 642 12| superiour woman, like the Greek courtezans, will assemble the men of 643 4| their defects a graceful covering, which may serve to heighten 644 4| Perhaps the frown of an old cow, or the jump of a mouse; 645 12| are more restrained and cowed than boys, speak of the 646 4| reason, as well as genius, in Cowley, Milton, and Pope,* but 647 5| whom truth makes free!' - Cowper.~ ~ The being who can govern 648 12| assume from the selfish coxcomb, who lives, but for himself, 649 5| she will make them formal coxcombs, or ignorant blockheads; 650 7| shades, breathing those coy sweets that steal into the 651 7| reflections, and not the coyness of ignorance. The reserve 652 13| not depressed from their cradles.~ ~ I know that a little 653 12| luxurious despots, and women the crafty ministers? - Does this prove 654 12| however, where swarms are not crammed together, many bad habits 655 4| weaken their bodies and cramp their minds. But, if even 656 12| prevents that intercourse which creates affection in the rude hut, 657 13| tallow candle in the socket, creating intolerable disgust. To 658 5| are to believe: for the creed, which presents only obscure 659 9| loop-holes out of which a man may creep, and dare to think and act 660 7| makes Diana with her silver crescent, the goddess of chastity. 661 13| married women, excepting in criminal cases, a civil existence, 662 13| do homage to power, and cringe under the foot that can 663 12| people they have just been cringing to, and whom they ought 664 6| of which they are made critical judges, are rebuffing, and 665 9| to consider this question critically; because, having frequently 666 5| that I enter on the task of criticism with affectionate respect; 667 12| suffer her babes to grow up crooked in a nursery. This illustration 668 12| sheep to be turned in to crop the untrodden grass. The 669 8| that suddenly gush out, is crowned with smiling verdure; this 670 13| churches where they can display crutches, and models of limbs made 671 12| founder being observed, crying out against all reformation, 672 5| assiduity as a young Circassian cultivates her's, to fit her for the 673 9| slavish ceremonies that with cumberous pomp supplied the place 674 3| pays her tythe of mint and cummin - and thanks her God that 675 11| observes, that 'if the mind be curbed and humbled too much in 676 7| more modest - till men, curbing a sensual fondness for the 677 13| when any power but reason curbs the free spirit of man, 678 13| or sanctity. They do not cure for the love of God, but 679 13| they effect these wonderful cures by supernatural aid?~ ~ 680 6| must, at least, have our curiosity excited by knowing, in some 681 5| be made seriously on this curious passage, and I could produce 682 5| the slave of love.~ ~ -'Curs'd vassalage,~ ~ 'First 683 5| their native robe of virtue? Curst be the impious hand that 684 12| in the eye, and humanity curve the cheek, or vain is the 685 9| she is reduced to a mere cypher.~ ~ The being who discharges 686 2| hereditary honours have made cyphers of women to give consequence 687 12| stream been muddied by the dabblers, who have presumptuously 688 13| ancients mention familiar daemons, who guarded them from danger 689 3| Shakspeare never grasped the airy dagger with a nerveless hand, nor 690 4| death lurk in the cup or dainty that elevates the spirits 691 8| life. But the hills and dales, clouds and sunshine, conspicuous 692 4| character; and by playful dalliance to give some dignity to 693 7| lonely recess, a modest dame of antiquity must have felt 694 12| frigid self-importance, the damning epithet - romantic; the 695 2| to her feelings, and not dance with spirit, when gaiety 696 4| of reason above opinion, dared to be proud of the privileges 697 2| innocent vivacity, is she darkly to be told that men will 698 1| his active mind would have darted forward to contemplate the 699 12| filial esteem always has a dash of fear mixed with it, will, 700 3| represses the first faint dawning of a natural inclination, 701 12| could occur in an elementary day-school, where boys and girls, the 702 12| necessity of establishing proper day-schools.~ ~ But, these should be 703 1| splendid slavery. The desire of dazzling by riches, the most certain 704 6| the understanding, tend to deaden the feelings and break associations 705 3| freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress 706 12| down, children would turn a deaf ear. For instance, botany, 707 5| instinct? Who that has read Dean Swift's disgusting description 708 5| life; but if any thing be dearer than its own respect, the 709 4| correct themselves, and pay dearly for their experience, it 710 5| for servitude not only debases the individual, but its 711 12| not be ruined by the early debaucheries, which now make men so selfish, 712 5| husband; who, paying the debt that mankind owed them, 713 2| be violated to detain a deceitful good that saps the very 714 8| which she must practise to deceive him, will render her the 715 5| is far better to be often deceived than never to trust; to 716 12| together, those graceful decencies might early be inculcated 717 13| those still more fashionable deceptions, practised by the whole 718 4| them, when the victory is decided, and conspicuous.~ ~ I must 719 5| they ought to abide by the decision of their fathers and husbands 720 4| has been subjected to the decisions of taste.~ ~ It would almost 721 2| humanity, they have been decked with artificial graces that 722 5| The imagination, which decks the object of our desires, 723 5| excited by the subject-~ ~ In declamatory periods Dr. Fordyce spins 724 5| qualifications will enable them to decorate themselves.'~ ~ This is 725 1| DEDICATION~ ~ To~ ~ M. Talleyrand-Perigord,~ ~ 726 5| chapter iii.].~ ~ 'Hence we deduce a third consequence from 727 5| educated by rules not strictly deducible from truth, virtue is an 728 2| present enjoyment should be deducted from the treasure of life, 729 2| one of Adam's ribs, the deduction must be allowed to fall 730 4| the male prejudice, which deems beauty the perfection of 731 6| something more solid must deepen their impression and set 732 13| become events, and reflection deepens what it should, and would 733 5| comes full on us in the deepest shade of turpitude, and 734 8| the unchaste man doubly defeats the purpose of nature, by 735 9| that government then very defective, and very unmindful of the 736 3| various modes of attack and defence between the sexes; the boldness 737 5| are timid and want to be defended. They are frail; O do not 738 9| of fortitude.~ ~ Yet, if defensive war, the only justifiable 739 4| abortive eagerness round the defiled body, unable to enjoy any 740 12| expansion, or render it deformed. Exercise and cleanliness 741 4| blind horse in a mill, is defrauded of her just reward; for 742 3| mean fortune-hunter, who defrauds her children of their paternal 743 12| of these establishments, degenerated into puerilities, affect 744 2| tenderness, which easily degenerates into contempt. Still, if 745 5| first ardour of friendship deifies the beloved object - what 746 6| its own authority, without deigning to reason; and it may also 747 13| pretend to work a miracle, are delegated by God, or assisted by the 748 3| difficult to prove that such delegates will act like men subjected 749 7| gives up all the world, deliberately, for love. I do not now 750 13| were, like women, fond of deliberating together, and asking advice 751 4| the wavering produced by deliberation or progressive views, but 752 4| the prey of their senses, delicately termed sensibility and are 753 2| participate~ ~ 'All rational delight-~ ~ In treating, therefore, 754 5| disappointed hope! for He who delighteth to diffuse happiness and 755 5| these occasions, the most delightful circumstance a man finds 756 3| recommended with all the deluding charms of eloquence and 757 Int| simple unadorned truth; and a deluge of false sentiments and 758 5| hoary.~ ~ If the submission demanded be founded on justice - 759 9| almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.~ ~ 760 5| fulfilled the sacred task. He denies woman reason, shuts her 761 2| enjoyment is taste to be denominated a blessing?~ ~ * For example, 762 5| character of omnipotence, and denounce damnation on our fellow 763 8| character, like one of the dense morning fogs of November, 764 4| are attaining a degree of density; and the flexible muscles, 765 5| pardon the rudeness and depart in peace, though sprinkled, 766 9| was employed in any of the departments of civil life, his wife, 767 7| enterprise, on which so much depended.~ ~ A modest man is steady, 768 4| mind, naturally weakened by depending on authority, never exerts 769 4| found vapid. It can then depict love with celestial charms, 770 3| are every where in this deplorable state; for, in order to 771 8| cause that I have already deplored as the grand source of female 772 8| justice will be fearfully deprecated, or the tie which draws 773 5| the business of my life to depress; but soon heard with the 774 6| them wretched because it deprives them of all employment, 775 1| argument to justify the depriving men (or women) of their 776 9| life, every duty is done by deputies, as if duties could ever 777 2| the order I admired, till, descending from that giddy height, 778 4| Inheriting, in a lineal descent from the first fair defect 779 12| what they have so well described, the charm which natural 780 4| not written originally as descriptive of women, but of the rich. 781 12| man cannot retire into a desert with his child, and if he 782 8| have thought that they deserved their husbands' affection, 783 8| for certain vices without deserving to be despised. I speak 784 Int| point out their peculiar designation.~ ~ I wish also to steer 785 3| weakness, he is played upon by designing men, till the bloated monster 786 13| on the egregious folly of desiring to know what the Supreme 787 3| provision; but she is not desolate! The pang of nature is felt; 788 3| destructive blast which desolates Turkey, and renders the 789 13| with an even hand, to the despairing plunges of a spirited filly, 790 6| and enjoyment only the desperate effort of weakness flying 791 8| are thrown into a state of desperation, by the venomous rancour 792 1| authority, are reviled as despisers of God, and enemies of man. 793 5| find in your hearts* to despoil the gentle, trusting creatures 794 4| been either a slave, or a despot, and to remark, that each 795 10| they imbitter by the most despotic stretch of power. Power, 796 5| in most sentimental rant, details his opinions respecting 797 2| of truth be violated to detain a deceitful good that saps 798 5| from her, and when the son detects his villany, and following 799 2| determined to marry. This determination, however, perfectly consistent 800 5| degree, there is no need of determining to hide her talents under 801 1| was made the organ of the detestable Dubois!~ ~ What but a pestilential 802 2| should not be allowed to dethrone superior powers, or to usurp 803 5| In the one sex it is the developement of corporeal powers; in 804 12| of some medical men, and deviated from the beaten track in 805 5| in educating Emilius he deviates from this plan; yet, the 806 5| refinement of wisdom as a deviation into folly.' Thus she dogmatically 807 1| simple axiom with casual deviations.~ ~ Men, in general, seem 808 4| there are many husbands so devoid of sense and parental affection, 809 3| family.~ ~ A double duty devolves on her; to educate them 810 5| empire, when his heart is devotedly theirs.' It is not empire, - 811 13| Perhaps, however, you devoutly believe in the devil, and 812 3| her name, soon acquired a dexterity in all these rustic employments, 813 3| ignorance, proceed on a plan diametrically opposite to that which Rousseau 814 7| poetical fiction, which makes Diana with her silver crescent, 815 11| This is at the bottom a dictate of common sense, or the 816 Int| try to avoid that flowery diction which has slided from essays 817 9| the word midwife, in our dictionaries, will soon give place to 818 8| heard of Lucretia, had she died to preserve her chastity 819 5| by a breeze, and annually dies, but the oak stands firm, 820 12| the plan I mean, than a digested one; but I must add, that 821 4| relaxed, and their powers of digestion destroyed. To carry the 822 3| return from this apparent digression. It were to be wished that 823 3| as irreverent. Into this dilemma have both enthusiasts and 824 5| claim! And in attempting to diminish their influence over the 825 1| which Genius "must hide its diminished head," it is, with a few 826 2| hovered round a form of beauty dimly seen - but familiarity might 827 9| humanity is agitated he may dip a sop in the milk of human 828 1| over society when its chief director is only instructed in the 829 8| wives, fathers, mothers, and directors of families, become merely 830 8| malicious tale, which has thrown dirt on a pure character. A false 831 12| order, lest they should dirty or tear their clothes.~ ~ 832 8| corrupted; and with all their disadvantages of situation and education, 833 12| athwart a dark sky, and disappear as they are gazed at and 834 5| quicksand sinks as he ascends, disappointing his hopes when almost within 835 5| mortification can exceed the disappointment, if the end be not obtained? 836 12| almost rejoiced at the disaster that gave a kind of sanction 837 12| attaining knowledge, have not discarded modesty, nor have they always 838 3| humanity can scarcely be discerned. Such are the blessings 839 9| cypher.~ ~ The being who discharges the duties of its station 840 13| name, and profess to be the disciples of him, who said, by their 841 2| robust men; they may be well disciplined machines, but they will 842 3| from principles which he disclaims as irreverent. Into this 843 2| species. What does history disclose but marks of inferiority, 844 7| find comfort, forlorn and disconsolate one? He who ought to have 845 4| at least, their evenings, discontentedly. Their husbands acknowledge 846 5| would live in perpetual discord, and their union could not 847 4| discourse with her~ ~ 'Loses discountenanc'd, and, like Folly, shows;~ ~ ' 848 13| contrary to the nature of God, discoverable in all his works, and in 849 2| say to what height human discoveries and improvements may arrive 850 8| these solemn moments man discovers the germ of those vices, 851 5| say, There is a modest and discreet girl; but while you are 852 4| Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best;~ ~ 'All higher knowledge 853 7| to me equally proper to discriminate that purity of mind, which 854 12| husbands and fathers.~ ~ Discussing the advantages which a public 855 10| be practically false; but disdaining the shifts of the moment 856 13| promise to restore health to a diseased body by supernatural means, 857 13| disorders, but of chronical diseases, it must be brought into 858 6| maturity, can seldom be disentangled by reason. One idea calls 859 7| to ornament, or rather to disfigure, their persons, much would 860 12| been governed by arts that disgrace the character of man; and 861 13| headstrong efforts, often disgraced the exertions of both. Oppression 862 9| Besides, when poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality 863 12| that pitiful cunning which disgracefully characterizes the female 864 13| would be obliged to lurk in disguise, and practise the most dishonest 865 4| excuse, to the voluptuary who disguises sheer sensuality under a 866 8| literally speaking, standing dishes to which every glutton may 867 1| Sir, are dictated by a disinterested spirit - I plead for my 868 5| man, who can only inspect disjointed parts, finds many things 869 3| looking-glass; when, taking a dislike to the constrained attitude 870 5| elude punishment in case of disobedience, but to exempt herself from 871 1| this view of the misery and disorder which pervaded society, 872 2| speaking, receive only a disorderly kind of education, seldom 873 2| Giv'n and receiv'd; but in disparity~ ~ 'The one intense, the 874 7| than man; but it is not dispassionate reasoners who will most 875 2| it seems to be the common dispensation of Providence, that what 876 9| The rank in life which dispenses with their fulfilling this 877 8| become just when the cloud is dispersed that produced the mistake 878 5| morning when the mists, slowly dispersing, silently unveil the beauties 879 12| whilst in every motion that displays the active limbs and well-knit 880 13| such vile impostors, may displease some of my readers - I respect 881 12| were set. Not allowed to dispose of money, or call any thing 882 2| adorn'd.~ ~ 'My Author and Disposer, what thou bidst~ ~ 'Unargued 883 5| moss-covered opinions assume the disproportioned form of prejudices, when 884 3| of the female soul be as disputable as that of animals - if 885 3| silence many boisterous disputants, yet, when any, prevailing 886 12| seriousness which prevents disputation, though it may not inforce 887 13| that the mind, which he disregards, gives life to the enthusiastic 888 2| love or lust.~ ~ To speak disrespectfully of love is, I know, high 889 8| with, for the practised dissembler, at last, becomes the dupe 890 13| Butler's caricature of a dissenter, brings before the imagination, 891 3| debauched young men, to dissipate their husband's patrimony 892 13| conversation; and, though the dissipated artificial life which they 893 5| accompanied with extreme dissoluteness of morals. In Portugal, 894 4| would be continued after the dissolution of the body. But, in the 895 4| which only death ought to dissolve.~ ~ Friendship is a serious 896 3| if, like the Sybarites, dissolved in luxury every thing like 897 9| advise them to turn their distaff into a musket, though I 898 3| the sickly effusions of distempered brains; but the exuberance 899 5| reason - when her voice is distinctly heard. But, if it be proved, 900 12| with the fortitude that distinguishes steadiness of conduct from 901 3| sensibility. She thought a distinguishing taste and puny appetite 902 8| character. A false light distorted, for a short time, its shadow - 903 3| contributes to, instead of disturbing, the order of creation, 904 5| conspicuous in many passages that disturbs this sympathy; and we pop 905 3| as easily be led into a ditch as along the beaten road. 906 5| round the visible effects to dive into the hidden cause.~ ~ 907 5| more transported at their diversions than boys.'~ ~ The answer 908 3| same manner. From their diversity in this particular, arises 909 5| beings. How would they be diverted to see the ambitious man 910 5| fellows?-~ ~ And love! What diverting scenes would it produce - 911 3| savage state, can seldom divest himself of this barbarous 912 4| pleasure or sway seems to divide mankind, and the husband 913 9| civilization a curse, by dividing the world between voluptuous 914 4| if it be an emanation of divinity, the tie that connects the 915 4| unless adultery, a natural divorcement, abrogated the law. And 916 3| of nature, and broaches a doctrine pregnant with mischief and 917 12| should rather caress this dog than her children? Or, that 918 3| absurdities plausible, and his dogmatic conclusions puzzle, without 919 5| deviation into folly.' Thus she dogmatically addresses a new married 920 12| and assistants, are never domesticated, though placed there for 921 12| under foot by the rich, to domineer over them to revenge the 922 4| passions, which have ever domineered over the whole race!~ ~ 923 3| dying flame, which nature doomed to expire when the object 924 2| comfort, and cultivate her dormant faculties? or, is it not 925 2| lost in the husband, the dotard, a prey to childish caprices, 926 4| with celestial charms, and dote on the grand ideal object - 927 1| complicated low calculations of doting self-love, have all contributed 928 12| mistresses; for the mean doublings of cunning will ever render 929 7| ye will still remain in a doubtful dependent situation, and 930 7| whilst ye are fair! The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the 931 5| the male line from Adam downwards. Rousseau would carry his 932 9| little shop with half a dozen children looking up to their 933 5| to whip the top, and to drag about their little carts: 934 9| him stalk in masquerade, dragging from one scene of dissipation 935 5| near the awful close of the drama. The days of activity and 936 5| emphatical comment, were it drawled out in a whining voice.~ ~ 937 7| folly - into vice;* and the dreadful reckoning falls heavily 938 1| world, the Romans never dreamed of establishing their own 939 1| and superstition, the sure dregs of ambition. The indolent 940 8| rising sun, a soft shower drizzling through the leaves of neighbouring 941 12| very men labour to give a droll turn who countenance the 942 9| by undeserved contempt, droop like 'the lily broken down 943 5| and activity; to beat the drum, to whip the top, and to 944 12| the principles of which, dryly laid down, children would 945 9| number of wars that have dubbed heroes. I do not mean to 946 13| futurity, or inquire about some dubious event: and her inquiries, 947 1| organ of the detestable Dubois!~ ~ What but a pestilential 948 6| remains throughout life. So ductile is the understanding, and 949 5| to enliven the hour of dulness, and call up the ideas of 950 8| dissembler, at last, becomes the dupe of his own arts, loses that 951 2| tyrants, and women have been duped by their lovers, as princes 952 4| innocent girls become the dupes of a sincere, affectionate 953 2| been celebrated for their durability have always been unfortunate. 954 Int| do not seek to obtain a durable interest in their hearts, 955 11| consequence is notorious; these dutiful daughters become adulteresses, 956 13| entered those mysterious dwellings. Yet, as I have throughout 957 3| to please him and feed a dying flame, which nature doomed 958 6| and their thirsty ears eagerly drink the insinuating nothings 959 4| continually hovering with abortive eagerness round the defiled body, 960 6| genius, and beaming in its eagle eye, produce in the most 961 5| Girls are from their earliest infancy fond of dress. Not 962 9| respectable is the woman who earns her own bread by fulfilling 963 8| circumspection, may be ruined by an earthquake or an inundation. Accidents 964 5| to raise him above this earthy dross, by teaching him to 965 12| limbs and features; but the ebullition of an heated fancy that 966 5| reflections which youthful ebullitions of animal spirits and instinctive 967 8| ought to be regulated. The eccentric orbit of the comet never 968 2| women who have rushed in eccentrical directions out of the orbit 969 3| remarks, which have since been echoed by several writers, that 970 5| it is a prejudice. These echoes have a high respect for 971 2| disregarding the arbitrary economy of nature, one writer has 972 5| Rousseau's life divided between ecstasy and misery? Can any other 973 Int| Ed. INTRODUCTION~ ~ After considering 974 4| which nature knew,~ ~ In Eden's pure and guiltless garden 975 9| and neither suckles nor educates her children, scarcely deserves 976 6| sufficient strength of mind to efface the superinductions of art 977 2| frown of insulted virtue effaces the smile of complacency 978 9| the school of finesse and effeminacy, than of fortitude.~ ~ Yet, 979 12| boys, they become vain and effeminate.~ ~ The only way to avoid 980 8| tribulation, find the serpent's egg in some fold of my heart, 981 4| outwardly ornamented with elaborate care, and so adorned to 982 4| instruction which has been elaborately prepared for them by the 983 9| continually twitching back the elbow to prevent the hand from 984 Int| and despising that weak elegancy of mind, exquisite sensibility, 985 12| of the finest eye or the elegantly turned finish of the fairest 986 8| earth, and breathe the same element. Humanity thus rises naturally 987 5| them together, or on an elephant, tortoise, or even the mighty 988 4| too, in sport, may really elevate for ever above you. But 989 1| various crimes that have elevated men to the supreme dignity. - 990 5| art. At the age of ten or eleven; nay, often much sooner, 991 9| entreat them to assist to emancipate their companion, to make 992 12| speak of the improvement and emancipation of the whole sex, for I 993 4| in any other person. The embarrassment which he occasioned to those 994 1| when little virtue or sense embellish it with the grand traces 995 5| he only wished to see it embellished by charms, weaknesses, and 996 4| and DELICATE LIKE YOU;~ ~ Emblems of innocence, and beauty 997 6| fine volatile fluids that embraced humanity, keeping the more 998 12| duties. - An active mind embraces the whole circle of its 999 13| caresses of appetite, but sin embracing death, compared with the 1000 8| instinct, either destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast it