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2002 2| when viewing some noble monument of human art, I have traced 2003 9| impresses it! But, till these monuments of folly are levelled by 2004 7| modesty. - It is the pale moon-beam that renders more interesting 2005 4| nature, that men have used morally and physically, to degrade 2006 12| is not confined to the morbid part, but pervades society 2007 12| might attend, three or four mornings in the week, the schools 2008 4| choleric, and the latter morose; because liveliness of fancy, 2009 5| reasonable at all times. But, moss-covered opinions assume the disproportioned 2010 7| sinking heart?~ ~ * The poor moth fluttering round a candle, 2011 4| all his words, as all his motions are attended to, he learns 2012 4| the gross materials; and, moulding them with passion, give 2013 9| which purify the air on the mountain's top, were alone to be 2014 1| antidote; and had Rousseau mounted one step higher in his investigation, 2015 12| formed, the genial juices mounting at the same time, kindly 2016 5| preface he tells them a mournful truth, 'that they will hear, 2017 4| old cow, or the jump of a mouse; a rat, would be a serious 2018 9| scarcely stop their children's mouths with bread. How are they 2019 5| own insipid persons. It moves my gall to hear a preacher 2020 12| affection in the rude hut, or mud hovel, and leads uncultivated 2021 9| be called, consisting in multiplying dependents and contriving 2022 12| live in idleness. It is mumbled over as an affair of business, 2023 12| heart smote him more for one murder, the first, than for a hundred 2024 13| children are absolutely murdered by the ignorance of women! 2025 10| duty by proxy should not murmur if they miss the reward 2026 3| fitted to bestow? To touch a musical instrument with useless 2027 9| turn their distaff into a musket, though I sincerely wish 2028 5| whose virtue* is built on mutable prejudices, seldom attains 2029 8| loudly tell me, when all is mute, that we are formed of the 2030 8| defiance.~ ~ The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each 2031 7| then be no appearance of mystery they would never think of 2032 2| in proportion due~ ~ 'Giv'n and receiv'd; but in disparity~ ~ ' 2033 4| who are not so rigidly nailed to their chairs to twist 2034 | namely 2035 12| employments; for by thus narrowing their minds they are rendered 2036 5| whose conduct has been most narrowly watched, become the weakest 2037 9| system of oeconomy, which narrows both heart and mind. I declare, 2038 13| women, pretending to cast nativities, to use the technical phrase; 2039 5| These dogs,' observes a naturalist, 'at first kept their ears 2040 4| also been asserted, by some naturalists, that men do not attain 2041 8| claims kindred with superiour natures. Virtues, unobserved by 2042 1| pander.~ ~ Sailors, the naval gentlemen, come under the 2043 4| the tall pine for future navies grows;~ ~ But this soft 2044 2| whole male sex,~ ~ 'Yet ne'er so sure our passion to 2045 4| herd will always take the nearest road to the completion of 2046 5| principal concern is to do them neatly.'~ ~ Secondary, in fact, 2047 7| instantly exclaim, cleanliness, neatness, and personal reserve. It 2048 5| their desires and their necessities: we could subsist better 2049 2| that she ought to have her neck bent under the yoke, because 2050 7| hand, by chance, under your neck-handkerchief, for a modest woman never 2051 13| useful engine to bend the necks of the strong under the 2052 5| themselves to the use of their needles. They imagine themselves 2053 5| only use affirmatives and negatives. Before you can bring them 2054 2| into method, observe. This negligent kind of guess-work, for 2055 6| fearful void; consequently, nervous complaints, and all the 2056 9| wife, nor the babes sent to nestle in a strange bosom, having 2057 4| given any specific gravity, neutrality ensues. Miserable, indeed, 2058 7| The behaviour of many newly married women has often 2059 9| particular men, who filled a niche in the temple of fame, and 2060 Int| they dress; they paint, and nickname God's creatures. - Surely 2061 13| manner, when any danger was nigh; or, pointed out what they 2062 4| chokes the affections and nips reason in the bud.~ ~ The 2063 4| accomplishments is the young nobleman instructed to support the 2064 2| perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, 2065 7| pointed it out, let them act nobly, or let pride whisper to 2066 5| particular. Boys love sports of noise and activity; to beat the 2067 9| most polished society that noisome reptiles and venomous serpents 2068 8| alarming; for virtue is only a nominal distinction when the duties 2069 12| social laws which make a nonentity of a wife.~ ~ In public 2070 4| not discover, when 'in the noon of beauty's power,' that 2071 9| personal charms, is a true north-east blast, that blights the 2072 9| especial care that no bleak northern nook or sound incline the 2073 9| that he has to lead by the nose, he can make an empty shew, 2074 12| self-willed old women, who give nostrums of them own without knowing 2075 6| eagerly drink the insinuating nothings of politeness, whilst they 2076 12| great degree. Now women are notoriously fond of pleasure; and, naturally 2077 7| their mothers carry and nourish them in the same way? As 2078 5| force of their passions, nourished by false views of life, 2079 5| another stage of existence by nourishing the passions which agitate 2080 12| that ought to afford it nourishment. Women have been allowed 2081 13| necessarily dependent on the novelist for amusement. Yet, when 2082 6| indulgences; but when the gloss of novelty is worn off, and pleasure 2083 1| forms of belief serves as a novitiate to the curate, who must 2084 9| rights, and duties become null.~ ~ Women then must be considered 2085 2| give consequence to the numerical figure; and idleness has 2086 13| agreed, that unless virtue be nursed by liberty, it will never 2087 4| thought and wish, that do not nurture pure affection and permanent 2088 2| find that her charms are oblique sunbeams, and that they 2089 5| deserve the contempt and obloquy that men, who never insult 2090 7| indecent allusions, or obscene witticisms, in the presence 2091 11| speculative truths - it never obscures moral ones, they shine clearly, 2092 7| phantom glides before us, obscuring every other object; yet 2093 4| cannot be anything, or the obsequious slaves, who patiently allow 2094 Int| the physical world it is observable that the female in point 2095 8| respecting behaviour, and outward observances, for unless virtue, of any 2096 12| the public good, the first obstacle to whatever would promote 2097 5| maintain them with a degree of obstinacy, that would surprise even 2098 5| on the behaviour, often obtains the name. I say behaviour, 2099 7| How can delicate women obtrude on notice that part of the 2100 3| necessity, they must remain obtuse. The argument may fairly 2101 1| of country towns as the occasional residence of a set of idle 2102 4| The embarrassment which he occasioned to those who spoke to him, 2103 1| superficial young men, whose only occupation is gallantry, and whose 2104 Adv| but fresh illustrations occurring as I advanced, I now present 2105 12| towards God - the sublime ocean of existence! What would 2106 9| secure for his family the odd trick. Or should some shew 2107 13| foolish women! which throws an odium on your sex! And these reflections 2108 8| of denying without giving offence, and, of evasively feeding 2109 5| that there will be nothing offensive in the behaviour.~ ~ The 2110 5| Do religion and virtue offer no stronger motives, no 2111 1| there be a greater insult offered to the rights of man than 2112 12| must mount as a free-will offering to Him who gave them birth, 2113 6| from a legion of devils. Oh! virtue, thou art not an 2114 13| commission as well as of omission; but all flowing from ignorance 2115 13| folly of women must not be omitted. - The manner in which they 2116 3| must be good, because be is omnipotent. For to exalt one attribute 2117 5| it is necessary to act oneself to be able to see how others 2118 4| affection, which she is afraid openly to oppose; and neither tears 2119 2| that cunning should not be opposed to wisdom, little cares 2120 1| being at the same time an optimist, he labours with uncommon 2121 13| if she inquired of the oracle, when she was anxious to 2122 13| for eminent piety.~ ~ The oracles of old were thus delivered 2123 13| squeamish ear,' says an eminent orator. 'It belongs to the mind 2124 3| struggling planets in their orbits, matter yields to the great 2125 2| Unargued I obey; So God ordains;~ ~ 'God is thy law, thou 2126 1| when an infant was made the organ of the detestable Dubois!~ ~ 2127 4| irritable nerves, more sensible organization, and more lively fancy; 2128 Int| variety of concurring causes, originating from one hasty conclusion. 2129 4| own reason?* Yet outwardly ornamented with elaborate care, and 2130 9| is termed with ignorant ostentation an Englishman's birth-right, 2131 3| had made dependent on her ostentatious bounty, and who, in better 2132 2| some solitary recess, an outcast of fortune, rising superior 2133 1| simple reason, raises an outcry - the church or the state 2134 4| of present enjoyment that outruns itself. The obedience required 2135 12| had sufficient address to over-reach their masters. In France, 2136 Int| of false sentiments and over-stretched feelings, stifling the natural 2137 12| cunning, or ferociously overbearing.~ ~ * The Bishop of Autun' 2138 3| lasciviousness.~ ~ This is not an overcharged picture; on the contrary, 2139 9| difficulties peculiar to her sex to overcome, which require almost superhuman 2140 13| compared with the modest overflowings of a pure heart and exalted 2141 5| of life, and permitted to overleap the boundary that secures 2142 5| studying their humours, overlooking their mistakes, submitting 2143 8| retire to till the rumour be overpast; nay, the darts of undeserved 2144 4| society, to acquire. This overstretched sensibility naturally relaxes 2145 1| exertion of reason, the overthrow of arbitrary power is not 2146 2| the transient effusions of overweening sensibility, I shall only 2147 1| have all contributed to overwhelm the mass of mankind, and 2148 2| kind, though the degree overwhelms the enraptured mind.~ ~ 2149 5| more agreeable to her to owe them all to her own industry. 2150 5| paying the debt that mankind owed them, might chance to bring 2151 7| which one human creature owes to another? That squeamish 2152 12| goad to madness the poor ox, or whip the patient ass, 2153 12| personify each passion, and the painter to sketch with a pencil 2154 4| most: for example; poets, painters, and composers.* Yet, when 2155 13| will appear in tattooing or painting it.~ ~ So far is this first 2156 7| as modesty. - It is the pale moon-beam that renders more 2157 9| metropolis in a morning full of pale-faced creatures who are flying 2158 5| and coquetry will likewise pall on the senses: why then 2159 3| away her pen, like another Pallas, and determined against 2160 2| fondness, ever grew insipid and palled upon the sense. Let us eat, 2161 6| is worn off, and pleasure palls upon the sense, lasciviousness 2162 9| which grind the poor to pamper the rich; thus a war. or 2163 13| a vicious worldling, who pampers his appetites by preying 2164 2| philosopher's stone, or the grand panacea: and the discovery would 2165 1| servile parasite or vile pander.~ ~ Sailors, the naval gentlemen, 2166 1| the subtile flame, like Pandora's pent up mischiefs, sufficiently 2167 3| she is not desolate! The pang of nature is felt; but after 2168 8| in the world; but if we pant after higher improvement 2169 5| scenes would it produce - Pantaloon's tricks must yield to more 2170 5| world was a stage on which a pantomime is daily performed for the 2171 2| gratify a noble mind that pants for, and deserves to be 2172 4| respectable visionary! thy paradise would soon be violated by 2173 5| returns to his unintelligible paradoxes again, when he thus addresses 2174 5| passage, [see note to fifth paragraph in chapter iii.].~ ~ 'Hence 2175 12| of sway, that will reign paramount in an empty mind. I say 2176 1| merit, becomes a servile parasite or vile pander.~ ~ Sailors, 2177 4| cling to their support, with parasitical tenacity, piteously demanding 2178 5| satisfaction, that refreshes the parched heart, like the silent dew 2179 12| select committee, in each parish, to whom any complaint of 2180 1| explanation, those of woman, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink 2181 12| with astonishment to the parrot-like prattle, uttered in solemn 2182 7| friend has appeared, whom I parted with full dressed the evening 2183 13| inactive, like the lurking particles of fire which are supposed 2184 7| their own sex, in these particulars, will not long respect the 2185 5| she may do the same after parting with a lover. These are 2186 4| of the house, and his new partner.~ ~ Who can recount the 2187 12| of one of these diligent pastors?~ ~ The desire of living 2188 13| and apt comparisons with pathetic incidents and heroic characters 2189 13| Besides, various are the paths to power and fame which 2190 3| dissipate their husband's patrimony in riotous and unnecessary 2191 1| their mother must be a patriot; and the love of mankind, 2192 1| opinion of his rector or patron, if he mean to rise in his 2193 1| memory demands a respectful pause, when subjects are discussed 2194 8| hissings of envy, erect a pavilion in his own mind to retire 2195 5| restraint produces a number of peccant humours in domestic life, 2196 12| luxurious set of men, than the pedantic tyrants who reside in colleges 2197 12| modesty, nor have they always pedantically appeared to despise the 2198 3| society. The many become pedestal to the few. I, therefore, 2199 13| it, are very anxious to peep into futurity, to learn 2200 12| should be tried by their peers, which would be an admirable 2201 12| tyranny, till it becomes peevishly cunning, or ferociously 2202 3| opinion. She should learn to penetrate into their real sentiments 2203 13| when he, surveyed with a penetrating eye, appears a tragicomedy, 2204 5| the word. Possessing more penetration than sagacity, more understanding 2205 12| learn to turn the market penny; or, should a husband offend, 2206 3| poetic dreams, fancy has peopled the scene, and the soul 2207 3| O's, merely because she perceived that it was an ungraceful 2208 8| is in the shade! and he perceives them without abhorrence, 2209 12| till they are scarcely perceptible. The sympathies of our nature 2210 8| them drop into the chasm of perdition, that yawns to receive them. - 2211 4| heavenly image, that is not perfected by the exercise of its own 2212 4| allowed the phrase, is the perfectibility of human reason; for, were 2213 3| acquire human virtues (or perfections) by the same means as men, 2214 8| woman, in behaving well, performs but half her duty; as what 2215 7| solitary void, or sweet perfume, stolen from the violet, 2216 12| infancy of man a much more perilous state than that of brutes; 2217 1| practising evil, without his permission? No. - How could that energetic 2218 13| the presence of children, permitting them to suppose that they 2219 5| only hardens the heart and perplexes the understanding.~ ~ I 2220 12| that enables the poet to personify each passion, and the painter 2221 5| the scenes before as in perspective, and see every thing in 2222 2| indelicate, and earnestly persuades his daughters to conceal 2223 7| modulate for me the language of persuasive reason, till I rouse my 2224 13| supposed universally to pervade matter.~ ~ Females, in fact, 2225 10| To promote, such is the perversity of unprincipled prejudices, 2226 5| propensities, when corrupted or perverted by too much indulgence. 2227 12| render private vices a public pest. Besides, an habit of personal 2228 1| detestable Dubois!~ ~ What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society 2229 9| not choose to call them pests; but surely the present 2230 7| modest, Moses was humble, and Peter vain.~ ~ Thus, discriminating 2231 2| should women be censured with petulant acrimony, because they seem 2232 1| government, was a political phaenomenon that, according to abstract 2233 5| choose to keep close in their phalanx. Men, indeed, who insist 2234 8| this paltry prize, like the Pharisees, who prayed at the corners 2235 4| cause may account for this phenomenon, and prove it not to be 2236 Int| those who view them with a philosophic eye must, I should think, 2237 13| every trifle produces those phosphoric bursts which only mimick 2238 3| of fancy, that 'in a fine phrenzy' wandering, was not continually 2239 4| men have used morally and physically, to degrade the sex. I must 2240 4| which the French term a physionomie, women do not acquire before 2241 12| be surrounded by a large piece of ground, in which the 2242 8| of undeserved censure may pierce an innocent tender bosom 2243 1| investigation, or could his eye have pierced through the foggy atmosphere, 2244 12| human body as a majestic pile fit to receive a noble inhabitant, 2245 7| lead us to watch at a sick pillow, is despicable. But, why 2246 3| which she was brought up in, piously believing that wiser heads 2247 5| by a few examples. Mrs. Piozzi, who often repeated by rote, 2248 4| significant French word, piquant society; and the patient 2249 4| with parasitical tenacity, piteously demanding succour; and their 2250 Int| frivolous sex, and ridiculed or pitied by the writers who endeavour 2251 12| himself; nor will the scanty pittance, allowed for each child, 2252 12| should attend a school, where plain-work, mantua-making, millinery, & 2253 1| made him, or as a lawless planet darting from its orbit to 2254 3| confines the struggling planets in their orbits, matter 2255 1| the vices that have been plastered over unsightly ignorance, 2256 12| become the proper friend and play-fellow of an infant or youth. And 2257 5| should disturb the soft playfulness of love. The master wished 2258 1| disinterested spirit - I plead for my sex - not for myself. 2259 10| But a child, though a pledge of affection, will not enliven 2260 13| matrimonial tie, secures to the pledges of a warmer passion the 2261 4| scarcely compatible with that pliant urbanity which leads a man, 2262 9| the lily broken down by a plow-share.'~ ~ It is a melancholy 2263 9| by the careless hand that plucked them. In how many ways do 2264 4| have nothing to do but to plume themselves, and stalk with 2265 8| younger children, yet have plumed themselves on their unsullied 2266 7| affectation of its flaunting plumes; because, fallacious as 2267 13| hand, to the despairing plunges of a spirited filly, which 2268 13| magnetisers, who, by hocus pocus tricks, pretend to work 2269 12| have I seen an admirable poem thrown down, that a man 2270 6| people cannot see or feel poetically, they want fancy, and therefore 2271 5| insult their persons, have pointedly levelled at the female mind. 2272 3| Providence respecting them, by pointing out some irrefragable reason 2273 8| female world, were specious poisons, that incrusting morality 2274 5| shooting tendrils to a proper pole; yet after laying precept 2275 12| constituent parts of the body politic; but should more noble, 2276 13| respect paid to them by artful politicians, who knew how to avail themselves 2277 12| gratifications, which very early pollute the mind, and dry up the 2278 5| man; and to elucidate this pompous exordium, she adds, 'I said 2279 12| nature are strengthened by pondering cogitations, and deadened 2280 5| disturbs this sympathy; and we pop on the author, when we only 2281 12| particularly to the relicks of popery retained in our colleges, 2282 8| equally fatal effect on population and morals. Another, no 2283 2| clay, is not given in equal portions.~ ~ But avoiding, as I have 2284 7| by the same spirit as the Portugueze ladies, who would think 2285 4| it. But, till hereditary possessions are spread abroad, how can 2286 12| Sufficiently so to puff up the possessor, and excite envy in her 2287 4| strange things that may possibly occur on the road; the impression 2288 3| of the voice, or useless postures of the body; their time 2289 12| enclosed, and planted it with potatoes. The wife likewise was equally 2290 4| 2) 'Pleasure's the potion of th' inferior kind;~ ~ 2291 4| Men of these descriptions pour it into their compositions, 2292 12| at least prevent him from pouring out the little secrets which 2293 12| France.~ ~ To render this practicable, day schools, for particular 2294 4| are most degraded by these practices; for their motive is simply 2295 5| on the world. The father practises the most infamous arts to 2296 5| more pleasing to you, but pray let her never suspect that 2297 8| like the Pharisees, who prayed at the corners of streets, 2298 12| sluggish bell tinkle to prayers, as during the days when 2299 2| If they told us that in a pre-existent state the soul was fond 2300 1| men,* whose ashes still preach peace, and whose memory 2301 7| heedlessly stepping over the precipice to which thy guide, instead 2302 5| that we ought to have a precise idea of what we wish to 2303 5| mischances; but will infallibly preclude excellence in either virtue 2304 4| arrived at maturity, that precluded error, I should doubt whether 2305 4| do not acquire the same precocity. So notorious is this fact, 2306 3| most power who gratify a predominant one, the sex is degraded 2307 12| is ever on the watch for preferment?~ ~ So far, however, from 2308 3| and broaches a doctrine pregnant with mischief and derogatory 2309 3| imagination, called it forth prematurely, is so unphilosophical, 2310 4| necessary for me always to premise, that I speak of the condition 2311 5| with a lover. These are all preparations for adultery; or, should 2312 12| citizens by sacrificing the preparatory affections, by destroying 2313 12| appetite. But sense will always preponderate; and if women be not, in 2314 9| bondage of ignorance.~ ~ The preposterous distinctions of rank, which 2315 12| generation, they venerate the prescriptive right of possession, as 2316 13| propensity to cunning for her own preservation.~ ~ The virtues, however, 2317 10| affections that are the surest preservatives against vice. Natural affection, 2318 3| limit them; and that be may press forward without considering 2319 9| into virtue.~ ~ One class presses on another; for all are 2320 8| notwithstanding very strong presumptions.'~ ~ I perfectly coincide 2321 12| prevented.~ ~ But fortitude presupposes strength of mind; and is 2322 2| the arguments, which he pretends to draw from the indications 2323 3| fanciful female character, so prettily drawn by poets and novelists, 2324 2| his soul, Eloisa, love St. Preux, when life was fading before 2325 4| for man. I must, however, previously remark, that the power of 2326 13| pampers his appetites by preying on the foolish ones?~ ~ 2327 5| venture to assert, that preys secretly, like the worm 2328 13| were all educated, as she prided herself, in a most exemplary, 2329 3| dignity prevents her from priding herself on account of the 2330 3| directs the hands.~ ~ Dr. Priestley has remarked, in the preface 2331 1| origin of monarchical and priestly power, and the dawn of civilization. 2332 5| Here then we see a primary propensity firmly established, 2333 4| obtained in his reign that prince-like distinction so fatal to 2334 9| tribe of idle princes and princesses to pass with stupid pomp 2335 9| prudential maxim about the priority of justice.~ ~ Destructive, 2336 8| reputation of chastity is prized by women, it is despised 2337 13| at least, with a face of probability, to rise out of the observation. 2338 5| offices, to make a man of probity: and perhaps the most virtuous 2339 9| virtue of woman is very problematical; for Rousseau, and a numerous 2340 4| merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless 2341 3| defect can, by any chemical process of reasoning, become an 2342 4| shapes to his own fancy, proclaims man the lord of this lower 2343 4| or she was born only to procreate and rot. Or, granting brutes, 2344 13| and our irregularities producing certain consequences, we 2345 12| shewn to every visitor,* is productive of more mischief than would 2346 6| obtained. Besides, the books professedly written for their instruction, 2347 13| impious. - But, can the professors of Christianity ward off 2348 11| people are always eager to profit by enforcing arbitrary privileges; 2349 5| proper for turtle; or, more profoundly intent at a card-table, 2350 7| unsatisfied passion; but to prolong that ardour it is indelicate, 2351 7| tenderness which frequently prolongs the evening talk. Nay, I 2352 5| attributes rest?) indubitably promised: would not all the purposes 2353 7| misty night of ignorance, promising a clearer day, will respect, 2354 12| preserving health, but of promoting beauty, the physical causes 2355 Int| objects of desire - mere propagators of fools! - if it can be 2356 5| spring up from their first propensities, when corrupted or perverted 2357 7| escape him that proved a prophesy; nor was General Washington 2358 2| without being gifted with a prophetic spirit, I will venture to 2359 12| understanding before it gains proportionable strength, produce that pitiful 2360 11| humour, when they relax proportionally, is almost always unreasonable. 2361 2| But that grand passion not proportioned to the puny enjoyments of 2362 7| nevertheless, if she had proposed the question to me, I should 2363 4| are the arts by which he proposes to make mankind more easily 2364 10| timid inquiry.~ ~ * L'amour propre. L'amour de soi meme.~ ~ 2365 5| Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose.~ ~ 2366 5| religious reveries.~ ~ Most prospects in life are marred by the 2367 5| mean to secure ease and prosperity on earth as the first consideration, 2368 4| should not be treated like a prostitute; though I readily grant 2369 4| their persons often legally prostituted. A man when he enters any 2370 7| shameless behaviour of the prostitutes, who infest the streets 2371 9| however, they must always be protected, guarded from care, and 2372 12| in our colleges, when the protestant members seem to be such 2373 13| ass for whom ye provide provender - and allow her the privileges 2374 9| oppressors.~ ~ There is a homely proverb, which speaks a shrewd truth, 2375 4| ensue.~ ~ Necessity has been proverbially termed the mother of invention - 2376 3| be the upper servant, who provides his meals and takes care 2377 11| consulting their inclination, or providing for the comfort of the poor 2378 8| often grows the lustful prowler, that he refines on female 2379 1| posterity of such rapacious prowlers to rest quietly on their 2380 10| they who do their duty by proxy should not murmur if they 2381 9| whispering at the same time some prudential maxim about the priority 2382 7| was accused of ridiculous prudery: nevertheless, if she had 2383 9| bayonet converted into a pruning-hook. I only recreated an imagination, 2384 13| when she was anxious to pry into futurity, or inquire 2385 13| read their chapters and psalms before breakfast, never 2386 5| supported, in some modern publications on the female character 2387 4| which they may acquire the publick admiration; or do they seem 2388 12| establishments, degenerated into puerilities, affect to be the champions 2389 13| spoiled tempers, entered life puffed up with notions of their 2390 9| flowers to be admired and pulled to pieces by the careless 2391 12| moment after he has left the pulpit, and even whilst he is eating 2392 5| the lover-like phrases of pumped up passion, which are every 2393 12| that serves to point a pun. For, in fact, most of the 2394 2| practice the minor virtues with punctilious politeness. Where is then 2395 1| of ambition. The indolent puppet of a court first becomes 2396 2| It is difficult for us purblind mortals to say to what height 2397 5| thus acquired, is sometimes purchased at too dear a rate. I can 2398 7| of her time to pursuits purely intellectual, and whose 2399 6| serious dignity, and be purified in its own fires; and virtue 2400 1| It is the pestiferous purple which renders the progress 2401 2| objection extends to the whole purport of those books, which tend, 2402 12| affection which leads a wife to purr about her husband as she 2403 9| drawing out an almost empty purse, whispering at the same 2404 9| like a man, when a bold push might shake his seat.~ ~ 2405 8| summer insects that feed on putrefaction, we should not then be disgusted 2406 13| These are the priests of quackery, though it is true they 2407 5| first and most important qualification in a woman is good-nature 2408 5| with pleasure that such qualifications will enable them to decorate 2409 5| men as much address as to qualify them to act with ease.'~ ~ ' 2410 13| repeat words, in dressing, quarrelling with each other, or conversing 2411 4| And woman, either slave or queen,~ ~ 'Is quickly scorn'd 2412 6| them of all employment, by quenching the hopes and fears that 2413 12| parents are often only in quest of the cheapest school, 2414 4| children, and has made it questionable whether negligence or indulgence 2415 9| might with more propriety quit the Faro Bank, or card-table, 2416 2| occasionally shock it, is quitting a substance for a shadow. 2417 2| the world, would be to out Quixote Cervantes, and equally offend 2418 5| valuable work, instead of quoting her sentiments to support 2419 8| mostly reach its goal in all races. They who only strive for 2420 5| beauties of holiness seem to radiate about her, and the by-standers 2421 8| chastity in woman has a radical power to deprave the character. 2422 3| leave the narrow-minded to rail with thoughtless vehemence 2423 4| are provided with food and raiment, for which they neither 2424 4| hand will steal from the rainbow that is directed by a mind, 2425 7| streets of this metropolis, raising alternate emotions of pity 2426 3| argument branches into various ramifications. - Birth, riches, and every 2427 8| desperation, by the venomous rancour of their own sex.'~ ~ But, 2428 2| be used to point out the random exertions of a sort of instinctive 2429 4| I take her body,' says Ranger.~ ~ *(2) 'Supposing that 2430 6| another, with astonishing rapidity. I do not now allude to 2431 1| race that makes my pen dart rapidly along to support what I 2432 5| woman. The savage hand of rapine is unnerved by this chivalrous 2433 2| true friendship is still rarer."~ ~ This is an obvious 2434 4| compared with this cold-hearted rascal; for I like to use significant 2435 4| or the jump of a mouse; a rat, would be a serious danger. 2436 Int| not grow wiser in the same ratio, it will be clear that they 2437 6| whether it is reminiscence or ratiocination, lost sight of in its celerity, 2438 2| to be the toy of man, his rattle, and it must jingle in his 2439 3| prison. - These were not the ravings of imbecility, the sickly 2440 12| the understanding without reaching the heart.~ ~ Amongst remarks 2441 4| naturally falls into when realities are found vapid. It can 2442 3| surrounded by her children, reaping the reward of her care. 2443 1| whatever part of society it rears its brazen front, will ever 2444 10| thing is sacrificed by these Rebekah's, and for the sake of their 2445 6| made critical judges, are rebuffing, and his conversation cold 2446 7| impertinence in ornaments that rebuffs affection; because love 2447 2| proportion due~ ~ 'Giv'n and receiv'd; but in disparity~ ~ ' 2448 12| heart, tempered for the reception of friendship, is accustomed 2449 4| strangers, different from that reciprocation of civility which the dictates 2450 12| lost in teaching them to recite what they do not understand? 2451 3| the duties of life, yet recline with self-complacency on 2452 8| man to the Deity will be recognized in the pure sentiment of 2453 5| authority. - The bent bow recoils with violence, when the 2454 4| which virtue gives, is the recompence of toil: and, gradually 2455 3| senses; but, in order to reconcile his respect for self-denial, 2456 1| which could not easily be reconciled with his attributes.~ ~ 2457 1| to you; to induce you to reconsider the subject, and maturely 2458 3| however weak, of honour, the records of history are not filled 2459 6| subordinate state in society, to recover their lost ground, is it 2460 13| body or mind can only be recovered by these means, or we make 2461 9| into a pruning-hook. I only recreated an imagination, fatigued 2462 1| respect the opinion of his rector or patron, if he mean to 2463 6| be accounted for, without recurring to a sexual character. Men, 2464 7| fright,~ ~ When first a red-coat is in sight;~ ~ Behind the 2465 7| but for thee - there is no redemption on this side the grave! - 2466 3| turns to her children with redoubled fondness, and anxious to 2467 13| the sex. - Virtue, true refiner of joy! - if foolish men 2468 8| lustful prowler, that he refines on female softness. Something 2469 6| humanity, keeping the more refractory elementary parts together - 2470 5| calm satisfaction, that refreshes the parched heart, like 2471 9| eye by resting it on the refreshing green every where scattered 2472 3| as not to merit a serious refutation. That a girl, condemned 2473 8| depravity, the impossibility of regaining respectability by a return 2474 1| sensuality has been extracted to regale the voluptuary, and a kind 2475 4| greater part of his reign, was regarded, not only in France, but 2476 13| been materially injured, regimen, another word for temperance, 2477 3| our imagination faints, regulates the universe.~ ~ Besides, 2478 2| whilst dreaming that they reigned over them.~ ~ I now principally 2479 2| scrupulous exactness when vice reigns in the heart.~ ~ Women ought 2480 5| the understanding of some relation or friend, and without fully 2481 5| blind authority who have no reliance on their own strength. ' 2482 12| noble inhabitant, in the relics of antiquity.~ ~ I do not 2483 12| for information, and then relies implicitly on the answer 2484 13| grandeur of which cannot be relished by ignorant or vitiated 2485 5| almost all of them learn with reluctance to read and write; but very 2486 11| contrary, the early habit of relying almost implicitly on the 2487 4| and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean. In the present 2488 1| inconsistently? Had mankind remained for ever in the brutal state 2489 8| unjustly exposed for the remaining part of his life to the 2490 4| Magdalenes are not the proper remedies for these abuses. It is 2491 5| brings Mrs. Macaulay to my remembrance. The woman of the greatest 2492 5| arguing it may be called, reminds me of what is vulgarly termed 2493 6| determine whether it is reminiscence or ratiocination, lost sight 2494 2| intense, the other still remiss~ ~ 'Cannot well suit with 2495 2| proves that man, from the remotest antiquity, found it convenient 2496 12| mechanical trades, ought to be removed to other schools, and receive 2497 5| lure a man to ruin. - What! renounce the most trifling gratification 2498 6| beauty could no longer be repaired. They have retired from 2499 6| does not consist of pretty repartees, or well turned compliments? 2500 1| added wheels to make it a repeater, &c. that perplexed the 2501 12| business, as a stupid boy repeats his task, and frequently