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1001 12| in a certain style. Great emergencies excepted, which would rarely 1002 1| society, when men were just emerging out of barbarism, chiefs 1003 3| monster than some of the Roman emperors, who were depraved by lawless 1004 5| lover, I must repeat with emphasis, a former observation, - 1005 4| to dry up the feelings by employing the mind in investigations 1006 3| of men. The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than 1007 4| Eloisa, Mrs. Macaulay, the Empress of Russia, Madame d'Eon, & 1008 5| dependent on heaven for that emulous panting after perfection 1009 12| they become free by being enabled to earn their own subsistence, 1010 5| track of common life without enabling them to act with consonant 1011 1| artificial fools, Rousseau became enamoured of solitude, and, being 1012 12| masculine virtues; it is not the enchantment of literary pursuits, or 1013 12| babes could sport freely, he enclosed, and planted it with potatoes. 1014 5| the sensibility of a young encomiast. 'What signifies it,' pursues 1015 5| preparing young people to encounter the evils of life with dignity 1016 3| than from education. We encourage a vicious indolence and 1017 4| the human race should be encouraged to remain with listless 1018 9| honest, independent women, by encouraging them to fill respectable 1019 5| their fears and blushes endear them. Let their confidence 1020 12| or mending a bat, has not endeared their country to them?~ ~ 1021 5| strains of condescending endearment! Let them be taught to respect 1022 | ending 1023 12| forms, for which it was endowed. These are the people who 1024 12| confinement, which they endured at school. Not allowed, 1025 5| The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently 1026 1| as despisers of God, and enemies of man. These are bitter 1027 Int| that the minds of women are enfeebled by false refinement; that 1028 11| always eager to profit by enforcing arbitrary privileges; and, 1029 3| employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give 1030 8| contrary, breaks a most sacred engagement, and becomes a cruel mother 1031 5| airs, that this thought engages their attention; and they 1032 7| the other sex naturally engender, I should be very anxious 1033 12| gangrene, which the vices engendered by oppression have produced, 1034 13| themselves of this useful engine to bend the necks of the 1035 1| insulted in France than even in England, till their women have treated 1036 9| ignorant ostentation an Englishman's birth-right, be expedient 1037 5| part, I would have a young Englishwoman cultivate her agreeable 1038 8| that for a moment, alone engrosses the thoughts. So voluptuous, 1039 3| governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let 1040 13| unless the understanding enlarges the heart; and that public 1041 12| their eyes, who ought to enlighten their judgment. Men of fancy, 1042 2| fellow-creature who is willing to be enlivened by her smiles and tricks, 1043 2| acquire the qualities that ennoble a rational being, and a 1044 3| can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not 1045 9| them to discharge those ennobling duties which equally require 1046 6| sentiment and taste varnish the enormities of vice, and give a zest 1047 8| told that great as this enormity is, it only affects a devoted 1048 2| the degree overwhelms the enraptured mind.~ ~ If, I say, for 1049 13| to human nature have been enrolled amongst sectaries; yet, 1050 1| to rest quietly on their ensanguined thrones.*~ ~ * Could there 1051 7| sacred temple, the body that enshrines such an improvable soul. 1052 7| himself the direction of an enterprise, on which so much depended.~ ~ 1053 1| necessary to give vigour to enterprizes that one will directs. A 1054 13| pleasure with eager thirst, entertain the meanest opinion of the 1055 5| Genlis has written several entertaining books for children; and 1056 5| small degree of knowledge entertains in a woman, so from a woman, 1057 2| The many have always been enthralled by the few; and monsters, 1058 5| lady just cited, with more enthusiasm. Her eulogium on Rousseau 1059 3| Into this dilemma have both enthusiasts and cooler thinkers fallen, 1060 4| soon be violated by the entrance of some unexpected guest. 1061 5| be stayed - the lady is entreated to pardon the rudeness and 1062 1| discharge the duties of a king, entrusted with uncontrouled power; 1063 2| my mind; yet, instead of envying the lovely pair, I have, 1064 4| Empress of Russia, Madame d'Eon, &c. These, and many more, 1065 2| women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they 1066 2| arts are necessary; the epicure must have his palate tickled, 1067 7| nor even to relish the epicurism of virtue - self-denial.~ ~ 1068 9| to have done with these episodical observations, let me return 1069 5| remarks which occur in his epistles - No, I only mean to make 1070 2| affections impart. But for this epoch we must wait - wait, perhaps, 1071 Int| constant struggle for an equilibrium, without it has naturally 1072 1| interests soon losing their equipoise, a monarchy and hierarchy 1073 5| a word, - humanity, was eradicated.~ ~ In life, on the contrary, 1074 10| frequently very brutish: for it eradicates every spark of humanity. 1075 13| understanding, though it be erroneously called seeing the world; 1076 9| European balance, taking especial care that no bleak northern 1077 5| See an excellent essay on this subject by Mrs. 1078 7| too far, especially the Essenes, amongst the Jews, by making 1079 7| communication, which virtue establishes between man and his Maker, 1080 8| same folly, pure as she esteems herself, when she studiously 1081 3| to his. She will be more estimable to him, than if she was 1082 5| with more enthusiasm. Her eulogium on Rousseau was accidentally 1083 12| college, forced to attend or evade public worship, they acquire 1084 8| giving offence, and, of evasively feeding hope with the chameleon' 1085 4| days; or, at least, their evenings, discontentedly. Their husbands 1086 7| knowledge to be shut with an everlasting seal! On reading similar 1087 6| part which they foolishly exacted from their lovers, they 1088 2| her Praise.'~ ~ These are exactly the arguments that I have 1089 5| the sex, remain now to be examined.~ ~ SECT. I.~ ~ I shall 1090 8| in His sight, and calmly examines its conduct when only His 1091 6| in unfolding instead of examining the first associations, 1092 5| and what mortification can exceed the disappointment, if the 1093 | except 1094 5| apt to indulge themselves excessively in what is allowed them. 1095 1| his wisdom and goodness excites, if these feelings were 1096 9| Rousseau has exultingly exclaimed, How can they leave the 1097 3| help-mate!*~ ~ * 'O how lovely,' exclaims Rousseau, speaking of Sophia, ' 1098 1| wisdom; and the paradoxical exclamation, that God has made all things 1099 13| expected to generate, to the exclusion of emulation and magnanimity.~ ~ 1100 5| beauty ought to be confined exclusively to one sex; but only that 1101 13| or Roman lady might be excused, if she inquired of the 1102 12| starved in a snare, and execrates the devils in the shape 1103 12| society, and not those who execute them, duty might become 1104 13| prided herself, in a most exemplary, manner; and read their 1105 6| have frequently seen this exemplified in women whose beauty could 1106 5| of disobedience, but to exempt herself from the necessity 1107 4| perseverance, soon exhausts itself; exhaled by its own heat, or meeting 1108 12| of vice: for every way of exhibiting the acquirements of a child 1109 12| ignorance and folly. Such exhibitions only serve to strike the 1110 5| poetic writer, who skilfully exhibits the objects of sense, most 1111 5| to elucidate this pompous exordium, she adds, 'I said that 1112 2| must ever languish like exotics, and be reckoned beautiful 1113 12| gradually leading to more expansive benevolence. Added to this, 1114 1| core may be expedient. Thus expediency is continually contrasted 1115 3| riotous and unnecessary expences, these are the only arts 1116 13| of a slave are commonly expended in a little tawdry finery. 1117 2| render women pleasing at the expense of every solid virtue.~ ~ 1118 12| history, and some simple experiments in natural philosophy, might 1119 3| friendship can subsist, when love expires, between the master and 1120 4| long feed on itself without expiring. And this extinction in 1121 6| one idea assimilating and explaining another, with astonishing 1122 1| will bear discussion and explanation, those of woman, by a parity 1123 13| must be allowed to add some explanatory remarks to bring the subject 1124 5| I earnestly wish to see exploded, seems to presuppose what 1125 10| which no eye must dare to explore, lest the baseless fabric 1126 8| on the savage custom of exposing the children whom their 1127 3| it follows that woman is expressly formed to please the man: 1128 4| other idea than of the most exquisitely polished instinct. I discern 1129 13| I have not attempted to extenuate their faults; but to prove 1130 8| is anxious to find every extenuation in their nature - in himself. 1131 5| persons, and regulate their exterior behaviour; and their minds 1132 13| A strong inclination for external ornaments ever appears in 1133 5| desires, the fire would have extinguished itself in a natural manner; 1134 11| high rank may, it is true, extort a shew of respect from his 1135 5| side of their character; extorting alternate feelings of love 1136 5| pleasing was refined only to extract the grossness of vice. He 1137 1| essence of sensuality has been extracted to regale the voluptuary, 1138 5| reason.'~ ~ I shall close my extracts with a just description 1139 5| like Sophia. 'Her dress is extremely modest in appearance, and 1140 3| Birth, riches, and every extrinsic advantage that exalt a man 1141 3| distempered brains; but the exuberance of fancy, that 'in a fine 1142 9| of the sex, Rousseau has exultingly exclaimed, How can they 1143 Int| rounding periods, or in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial 1144 5| furnishing woman with a greater facility to excite desires than she 1145 11| enemy, instead of boldly facing it in the clear stream.~ ~ 1146 Int| pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk, 1147 3| baseless fabric of a vision, faded before the exhausted eye, 1148 9| valued when their beauty fades, for it is the fate of the 1149 5| their infancy. So long as we fail to recur to this principle, 1150 12| whose bright image they faintly reflect.~ ~ In public schools, 1151 3| before which our imagination faints, regulates the universe.~ ~ 1152 8| afford envious weakness a fairer mark to shoot at, the real 1153 7| have tripped unawares on fairy ground, feeling the balmy 1154 6| use of reason. When do men fall-in-love with sense? When do they, 1155 3| ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that woman ought 1156 3| according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right 1157 Int| state. Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, 1158 7| modesty.* There is no need of falsehoods, disgusting as futile, for 1159 7| women.~ ~ The ridiculous falsities* which are told to children, 1160 7| recourse very often to what I familiarly term bodily wit; and their 1161 4| jealousies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when 1162 4| teeming with capricious fancies; or mere notable women. 1163 10| a duty, and assumes the fantastic form of a whim.~ ~ As the 1164 9| more propriety quit the Faro Bank, or card-table, to 1165 Int| instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them 1166 1| make covert corruption hold fast the power which was formerly 1167 4| individuality of character, the only fastener of the affections.* We then 1168 2| his goodness so strongly fastens on the human affections 1169 5| to be a tormenting ignis fatuus.~ ~ Our trees are now allowed 1170 1| for any man, when the most favourable circumstances concur, to 1171 13| the most High, the highly favoured, would be obliged to lurk 1172 5| know but how to render your favours rare and valuable. It is 1173 5| them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel? 'These 1174 9| can be gratified by the fawning fondness of spaniel-like 1175 4| reasonable, it is to be feared that women will avail themselves 1176 8| offended justice will be fearfully deprecated, or the tie which 1177 5| his daughters amiable, and fearing lest unhappiness should 1178 4| preserves health; still feasts delight the heart of man, 1179 4| Confined then in cages like the feathered race, they have nothing 1180 12| the evening to recount the feats of the day close at the 1181 9| which all proceed from a feculent stream of wealth that has 1182 12| would about any man who fed and caressed her.~ ~ Men 1183 11| same attention when the feebleness of age comes upon him. But 1184 8| offence, and, of evasively feeding hope with the chameleon' 1185 12| bank to draw on for the fees of the poor souls in purgatory, 1186 2| The worthy Dr. Gregory fell into a similar error. I 1187 4| that she may make on her fellow-travellers; and, above all, she is 1188 3| mind, though it serves as a fence against vice?~ ~ Such a 1189 4| just raised by the electric fermentation of the season; nor to dry 1190 12| becomes peevishly cunning, or ferociously overbearing.~ ~ * The Bishop 1191 12| of her child; as by the ferocity of a man, who, beating his 1192 5| sensualist who paid more fervent adoration at the shrine 1193 4| delicacy though it be another fetter, that by calling the attention 1194 5| rendered iron corroding fetters, if the world were shewn 1195 4| to the formation of the fetus in the womb, we are very 1196 1| foundation of both is secured by feudal tenures. This appears to 1197 2| of marriage, allowing the fever of love to subside, a healthy 1198 13| topics of conversation, and fewer refinements of sentiment, 1199 9| the mind. - If this be the fiat of fate, if they will make 1200 4| philosophical men complain of their fickleness? The sexual attention of 1201 7| beautiful than the poetical fiction, which makes Diana with 1202 4| that flow from personal fidelity, and give a sanctity to 1203 5| venture to provoke heaven's fiercest vengeance.' I know not any 1204 5| the passage, [see note to fifth paragraph in chapter iii.].~ ~ ' 1205 13| being foreseeing, that after fifty or sixty years of feverish 1206 3| never respected, though filling an important station, who 1207 9| independent of the station he fills, or the drapery of factitious 1208 13| despairing plunges of a spirited filly, which I have seen breaking 1209 11| mama has been scolding me finely this morning, because her 1210 5| understanding seems to lie in their fingers' ends. This ignorance is 1211 12| or the elegantly turned finish of the fairest features: 1212 7| artless modesty will give the finishing touches to the picture.~ ~ * 1213 12| wish to converse at their fire-side with a friend, after they 1214 10| reason, as if it were a firebrand; yet the limits of the possible 1215 6| and be purified in its own fires; and virtue giving true 1216 Int| addressing my sex in a firmer tone, I pay particular attention 1217 2| of character which is the firmest ground to rest our future 1218 11| instinct, which makes a fish muddy the water it swims 1219 3| all the duties of life are fitted to bestow? To touch a musical 1220 5| a grey head he would be fitter for death than life, though 1221 9| more important than merely fitting drapery upon a smooth block, 1222 12| be an admirable method of fixing sound principles of justice 1223 8| iniquity!~ ~ But my spirits flag; and I must silently indulge 1224 8| barrenness and contagious flagitiousness of manners. Surely nature 1225 6| lives. Like the lightning's flash are many recollections; 1226 5| ever varying the key, a flat would often pass for a natural 1227 5| employed in judging of the flavour of wine, descanting on the 1228 1| want reason - else this flaw in your NEW CONSTITUTION 1229 2| and be reckoned beautiful flaws in nature.~ ~ As to the 1230 4| feel: and that together, flesh and spirit, they make the 1231 4| docility, good-humour, and flexibility; virtues incompatible with 1232 4| degree of density; and the flexible muscles, growing daily more 1233 13| my sex not to read such flimsy works, it is to induce them 1234 12| lustre of their eyes, and the flippant sportiveness of refined 1235 12| women use to interrupt by flirtation, a very significant word 1236 13| receive a superiour education, flock to his door.~ ~ Do you believe 1237 12| nonsense, to please the men who flocked round her. The wife, mother, 1238 3| that tribes of men, like flocks of sheep, should quietly 1239 4| created perfect, or did a flood of knowledge break in upon 1240 5| mark of a little vain mind. Florid appeals are made to heaven, 1241 5| make its sleeve-knots, its flounces, its head-dress, &c. she 1242 1| the wretchedness that has flowed from hereditary honours, 1243 4| A wild wish has just flown from my heart to my head, 1244 4| fabric, and the wayward fluctuating feelings of men have been 1245 12| teach children to speak fluently, nor behave gracefully. 1246 6| Over this subtile electric fluid,* how little power do we 1247 3| Vainly then do they beat and foam, restrained by the power 1248 12| he drew into this glowing focus.~ ~ I observed that it was 1249 4| tougher yew repels invading foes,~ ~ And the tall pine for 1250 1| have pierced through the foggy atmosphere, which he almost 1251 8| one of the dense morning fogs of November, over this metropolis, 1252 8| the serpent's egg in some fold of my heart, and crush it 1253 13| them not forget that the followers of these delusions bear 1254 12| of reason. In youth, the fondest friendships are formed, 1255 12| home, and was ever after fondly remembered; nay, I appeal 1256 5| Thou wretch! thou ruffian! forbear; nor venture to provoke 1257 7| constitution of her nature forbid Thy child to seek Thee in 1258 5| masculine kind, are always forbidding; and that men of sensibility 1259 6| their fellow-creatures; forcing them to view with interest 1260 12| or vanity will become the forerunner of vice: for every way of 1261 3| gratification of their appetites. I foresee an obvious retort - whilst 1262 13| great, should create a being foreseeing, that after fifty or sixty 1263 5| opinion; I shall not then forestall what I have to observe on 1264 13| supernatural means, or to foretell the incidents that can only 1265 13| hear truth? Can events be foretold, events which have not yet 1266 6| ought to leave the go-cart forever, have not sufficient strength 1267 12| Lord's supper, to avoid forfeiting half a guinea, which he 1268 3| wasted the lamp of life, forgetful of the midnight hour; or, 1269 5| women are very ready to forgive! When he should have reasoned 1270 13| perusal of novels? I almost forgot a shade in the character 1271 7| art thou to find comfort, forlorn and disconsolate one? He 1272 5| timid; she will make them formal coxcombs, or ignorant blockheads; 1273 1| motives of action, they are formally contradicted, either by 1274 3| as some of the elegant formers of the fair sex would insinuate.~ ~ 1275 12| of politeness, and that formulary of decorum, which treads 1276 4| observations on the subject in Forster's Account of the Isles of 1277 9| gain sufficient strength to fortify the virtue of which they 1278 6| lie by for use, till some fortuitous circumstance makes the information 1279 13| way, by degrees, are very fortunate in becoming acquainted with 1280 3| an easy prey to some mean fortune-hunter, who defrauds her children 1281 | forty 1282 3| great men have lived beyond forty-five. And, considering the thoughtless 1283 12| deportment stupidly backwards and forwards, holding up their heads 1284 12| vacations, which do not foster domestic affections, continually 1285 9| are over, when a citizen fought for his country like a Fabricius 1286 12| insist on the will of the founder being observed, crying out 1287 12| might attend, three or four mornings in the week, the 1288 12| can be adopted when near a fourth part of the year is actually 1289 4| thing proves it to be but a fraction of a mighty sum, she is 1290 8| by man, drop their balmy fragrance at this cool hour, and the 1291 2| model her soul to suit the frailties of her companion, but to 1292 4| used as an excuse for their frailty and want of principle; nay, 1293 12| will never acquire that frank ingenuousness of behaviour, 1294 5| They will assure you that a franker behaviour would make you 1295 2| two sexes collectively, or frankly acknowledging the inferiority 1296 2| will restrain the natural frankness of youth by instilling such 1297 1| pursue some extravagant freak; whilst the needy gentleman, 1298 9| frequently viewed these freaks of ambition as the first 1299 12| by man, must mount as a free-will offering to Him who gave 1300 5| woman may allow all innocent freedoms, provided her virtue is 1301 3| the world will be long in freeing itself from, and whose deadly 1302 5| undoubtedly this, that they give a freer scope to the grand passions, 1303 4| by nature.' An eloquent Frenchman has answered them, I will 1304 7| should earnestly recommend frequent ablutions, to dignify my 1305 5| her fortune, and thrown friendless on the world. The father 1306 4| women. The latter are often friendly, honest creatures, and have 1307 12| reason. In youth, the fondest friendships are formed, the genial juices 1308 4| weakens the mind; but the frippery of dress. For when a woman 1309 4| cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind 1310 3| condemned to live, whilst boys frolic in the open air, weakens 1311 4| the Athenians, is, that a frolick of yours during the Saturnalia, 1312 12| for her, when the sharp frost bites, or the rain beats 1313 9| themselves, unless to pursue some frothy pleasure, or to invent some 1314 7| only to face a sneering, frowning world, and to find thyself 1315 7| stealing on me, though november frowns.~ ~ As a sex, women are 1316 5| our desires, is lost in fruition. Excepting the Supreme Being, 1317 5| and who would look for the fruits of autumn during the genial 1318 13| and spoil their tempers, frustrating also any plan of education 1319 2| is not very difficult to fulfill with scrupulous exactness 1320 4| the patient drudge, who fulfils her task, like a blind horse 1321 4| for literature affords a fund of amusement which they 1322 Adv| peculiar duties. These will furnish ample matter for a second 1323 7| falsehoods, disgusting as futile, for studied rules of behaviour 1324 2| dance with spirit, when gaiety of heart would make her 1325 1| between the servile dependent gait of a poor curate and the 1326 7| veil will only be worn on gala days.~ ~ Perhaps, there 1327 7| ground, feeling the balmy gale of spring stealing on me, 1328 5| insipid persons. It moves my gall to hear a preacher descanting 1329 8| quality, notorious for her gallantries, though as she still lived 1330 3| to wonder if sometimes, galled by their heavy yoke, they 1331 2| emancipated themselves from the galling yoke of sovereign man? - 1332 3| should be passed in harmless gambols, that exercise the feet 1333 2| imagination leisure to start fresh game. With perfect propriety, 1334 3| it with perfection, as a garment. But what good effect can 1335 7| be allowed to hallow the garments as well as the person; for 1336 Int| false system of education, gathered from the books written on 1337 2| experience; and that when we are gathering the flowers of the day and 1338 2| childish state, throw off their gaudy hereditary trappings: and 1339 8| the standard of taste, the gauge of appetite - yet how grossly 1340 3| for I here throw down my gauntlet, and deny the existence 1341 3| may say - Behold, thou gavest me a talent - and here are 1342 2| perfection to which its ardent gaze is turned, to adore attributes 1343 12| and disappear as they are gazed at and admired.~ ~ Few, 1344 3| every thing which tends to generalize our ideas, is not the proper 1345 2| the results of experience generalized by speculation. Led by their 1346 9| for them!~ ~ Would men but generously snap our chains, and be 1347 1| virtues, the citizen of Geneva, instead of properly sifting 1348 5| throne to a stool.~ ~ Madame Genlis has written several entertaining 1349 3| inclemency of the elements; but genteel women are, literally speaking, 1350 6| captivated by easy manners; a gentleman-like man seldom fails to please 1351 1| pander.~ ~ Sailors, the naval gentlemen, come under the same description, 1352 3| her insult a worthy old gentlewoman, whom unexpected misfortunes 1353 10| admiration - a child then gently twists the relaxing cord, 1354 12| sacrificed. The sons of our gentry and wealthy commoners are 1355 8| languor.~ ~ To satisfy this genus of men, women are made systematically 1356 8| moments man discovers the germ of those vices, which like 1357 3| been shrewdly observed by a German writer, that a pretty woman, 1358 1| cannot long be pent up; and, getting vent in foreign wars and 1359 5| wisdom; and with all thy gettings get understanding.' - 'How 1360 2| basis, then, without being gifted with a prophetic spirit, 1361 5| have graced with my fairest gifts, and committed to your protection; 1362 1| never thought of tracing the gigantic mischief up to arbitrary 1363 3| and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn 1364 2| mutual, in proportion due~ ~ 'Giv'n and receiv'd; but in disparity~ ~ ' 1365 6| that life can give - thou givest!~ ~ If much comfort cannot 1366 12| I have seen also an eye glanced coldly over a most exquisite 1367 13| supposed to inspire them. The glare of worldly pomp which surrounded 1368 13| state?~ ~ SECT. I.~ ~ One glaring instance of the weakness 1369 13| slips for ever from their glib tongues, and every trifle 1370 Int| pretty superlatives, dropping glibly from the tongue, vitiate 1371 7| up! - A shadowy phantom glides before us, obscuring every 1372 11| privilege, damp the first faint glimmering of reason, rendering at 1373 1| these observations - for a glimpse of this truth seemed to 1374 7| with a sort of bravado, and glorying in their shame, become more 1375 7| of sacred respect for the glove or slipper of his mistress. 1376 7| antiquity must have felt a glow of conscious dignity when, 1377 8| standing dishes to which every glutton may have access.~ ~ I may 1378 12| At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead 1379 8| constitution; and, a degree of gluttony which is so beastly, that 1380 5| they grow angry when those gnawing doubts are thrown back to 1381 6| they ought to leave the go-cart forever, have not sufficient 1382 12| in the shape of men, who goad to madness the poor ox, 1383 4| the pursuit of knowledge goaded on by necessity? - Happy 1384 2| of power.~ ~ Dr. Gregory goes much further; he actually 1385 2| the summer is passed and gone. Will she then have sufficient 1386 6| beauty and the simper of good-humoured docility: women are captivated 1387 5| qualification in a woman is good-nature or sweetness of temper: 1388 9| thus a war. or any wild goose chace, is, as the vulgar 1389 13| them, and a sort of menial governess to watch their footsteps. 1390 9| education of children as governesses, they are not treated like 1391 5| smiling innocents, whom I have graced with my fairest gifts, and 1392 2| myself contemplating the grandest of all human sights, - for 1393 1| the faint spirit which the grape of his own vine yields cannot 1394 12| whilst I walked down a broad gravel walk, I could not help observing 1395 5| religion, those ideas must be greatly above the conception of 1396 12| popular opinion that the Grecian statues were not modelled 1397 7| course with the sun. The greetings of affection in the morning 1398 1| disputes whether man be a gregarious animal, though the long 1399 5| had he the experience of a grey head he would be fitter 1400 3| abstracted and exalted by grief, dwells on the fond hope 1401 12| into impudence and apish grimace.~ ~ Yet, how can these things 1402 9| and contriving taxes which grind the poor to pamper the rich; 1403 1| immured in their families groping in the dark? for surely, 1404 5| refined only to extract the grossness of vice. He did not go back 1405 12| amiable and respectable groups, in spite of the sneering 1406 2| a paltry crown, let her grovel contentedly, scarcely raised 1407 2| headstrong passions and groveling vices. - Behold, I should 1408 4| and the flexible muscles, growing daily more rigid, give character 1409 9| expedient to bubble the gruff mastiff that he has to lead 1410 13| before she was left to his guardianship, been indulged in desultory 1411 13| kindly intimating, we cannot guess in what manner, when any 1412 2| This negligent kind of guess-work, for what other epithet 1413 4| entrance of some unexpected guest. Like Milton's it would 1414 8| they allow no refuge from guilt: whom they inexorably consign 1415 4| knew,~ ~ In Eden's pure and guiltless garden grew.~ ~ To loftier 1416 12| avoid forfeiting half a guinea, which he probably afterwards 1417 8| of comfort that suddenly gush out, is crowned with smiling 1418 12| should never encroach on gymnastic plays in the open air. The 1419 6| that had been excited and hackneyed in the ways of women, whose 1420 7| love, may be allowed to hallow the garments as well as 1421 3| themselves.~ ~ Why do men halt between two opinions, and 1422 5| apostrophize them, in the words of Hamlet - Seems! I know not seems! - 1423 5| hand of a pretty woman, handing her to a carriage, whom 1424 4| serious solicitude, to lift a handkerchief, or shut a door, when the 1425 5| interest in deceiving them.'~ ~ Hapless woman! what can be expected 1426 4| perfect whole, by blending happily reason and sensibility into 1427 12| allow women to leave their harams, do not cultivate their 1428 9| handmaid of love, or the harbinger of lust.~ ~ How much more 1429 12| will ever be at work to harden their hearts, and the emotions 1430 5| acquired any other way only hardens the heart and perplexes 1431 9| one of the stripes of the harlequin coat, worn by the civilized 1432 3| boys, in short, would play harmlessly together, if the distinction 1433 6| motives of action; and, to harp a little on an old string, 1434 7| charm, that mellowing each harsh feature of a character, 1435 5| surely it is not speaking harshly to call it the wisdom of 1436 4| most insidious attempt to hasten her fall by apparent respect. 1437 1| to purchase a cardinal's hat for an intriguing obscure 1438 5| sleeve-knots, its flounces, its head-dress, &c. she is obliged to have 1439 1| scarcely know or care why, with headlong fury.~ ~ Besides, nothing 1440 13| follow his footsteps, who healed the body to reach the mind?~ ~ 1441 9| certainly study the art of healing, and be physicians as well 1442 5| faculties, precepts are heaped upon precepts, and blind 1443 1| discussed that lay so near his heart-~ ~ * Dr. [Richard] Price.~ ~ 1444 9| smiling babes and a clean hearth. My heart has loitered in 1445 7| still further, modesty must heartily disclaim, and refuse to 1446 1| were to live on a barren heath.~ ~ It is then an affection 1447 7| mischief, and this smoke heats the imagination by vainly 1448 13| of taste would scale the heavens to invite thee back, to 1449 7| dreadful reckoning falls heavily on her own weak head, when 1450 3| sometimes, galled by their heavy yoke, they take a malignant 1451 4| covering, which may serve to heighten their charms in the eye 1452 4| not have their sensations heightened in the hot-bed of luxurious 1453 7| that, surrounding love, heightens every beauty, it half shades, 1454 13| inclination carried, that even the hellish yoke of slavery cannot stifle 1455 7| by surprise - when, like Heloisa, a woman gives up all the 1456 3| These the virtues of man's help-mate!*~ ~ * 'O how lovely,' exclaims 1457 5| minutae of education to his helpmate, or to chance.~ ~ But, granting 1458 2| husbands, as well as their helpmates, are often only overgrown 1459 9| numerous carriages that drive helter-skelter about this metropolis in 1460 9| serpents lurk under the rank herbage; and there is voluptuousness 1461 9| but for a woman it is an herculean task, because she has difficulties 1462 1| the first step towards herding.~ ~ *(2) What would you 1463 | hereafter 1464 5| yet have never met with a hero, in the shape of a husband; 1465 4| education, and yet have acted heroically, strongly confirmed me in 1466 5| when the author says of his heroine, 'that with her, doing things 1467 5| these volumes. - True - and Hervey's Meditations are still 1468 2| ask what is meant by such heterogeneous associations, as fair defects, 1469 1| equipoise, a monarchy and hierarchy break out of the confusion 1470 8| in private life. But the hills and dales, clouds and sunshine, 1471 2| argument must not be allowed to hinge; but in the whole sum of 1472 12| each child, permit him to hire ushers sufficient to assist 1473 10| to transfer the charge to hirelings; for they who do their duty 1474 10| innovation, silences the hiss of selfishness or envy.~ ~ 1475 8| amidst the whining candour or hissings of envy, erect a pavilion 1476 4| kings; and then, says his historian, "he surpassed all his courtiers 1477 5| built on prejudices, however hoary.~ ~ If the submission demanded 1478 13| these magnetisers, who, by hocus pocus tricks, pretend to 1479 12| backwards and forwards, holding up their heads and turning 1480 12| educated at home, for riotous holidays only make them fond of home 1481 5| so that the beauties of holiness seem to radiate about her, 1482 4| queens only to be deluded by hollow respect, till they are led 1483 9| oppressors.~ ~ There is a homely proverb, which speaks a 1484 5| gather knowledge; but the honey must be the reward of the 1485 8| front - for truly she is an honourable woman!~ ~ Mrs. Macaulay 1486 4| spinning a top or twirling a hoop.~ ~ * Many other names might 1487 3| kings, may, it is to be hoped, in this enlightened age, 1488 8| part of his life to the horror and aversion of mankind. 1489 9| parade of having sentinels on horseback at Whitehall, which I could 1490 12| when the elevation of the host was supposed to atone for 1491 4| Lord Bacon, 'hath given hostages to fortune; for they are 1492 5| First idoliz'd till love's hot fire be o'er,~ ~ 'Then slaves 1493 4| sensations heightened in the hot-bed of luxurious indolence, 1494 12| they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the 1495 7| will ever remain a sickly hot-house plant, whilst the affectation 1496 4| on the contrary, are of a hotter constitution, not only on 1497 4| animals, the most vigorous and hottest constitution always prevails, 1498 12| from their husband to the house-dog; nor would they ever insult 1499 13| that we should seldom see a houseful of babes. And did they pursue 1500 5| Yahoos, and insipid one of Houyhnhnm with a philosophical eye,