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3003 12| through much sooner than a sudden flight of folly. The power 3004 5| sex should partake of the sufferings which arise from those evils 3005 9| admired for her beauty, and suffers herself to be so far intoxicated 3006 5| such management will always suffice. Whatever precaution be 3007 8| agonized heart will cry with suffocating impatience - I too am a 3008 12| place of that celestial suffusion which only virtuous affections 3009 9| heir of immortality? Is sugar always to be produced by 3010 5| step that foresight could suggest to render life happy. Moderation 3011 12| present conducted, naturally suggested, I have formerly delivered 3012 8| countries where women are suitably married, according to their 3013 5| familiar style is particularly suited to the tenor of his advice, 3014 13| its rider, till at last it sullenly submitted.~ ~ I have always 3015 7| truth? And, can her soul be sullied by the knowledge that awfully 3016 9| voluptuousness pampered by the still sultry air, which relaxes every 3017 6| me; and, allowing Pope's summary of their character to be 3018 5| intelligence, must soon be summed up. - A knowledge at this 3019 4| as in a temple, with its summit lost in the clouds, the 3020 12| of the parents; who, of a Sunday, visit the school, and are 3021 4| make the distinction, and superannuated coquettes are commonly of 3022 12| out of one broad walk in a superb garden, and obliged to pace 3023 5| and armed by reason, be is superciliously asked whether his ancestors 3024 4| will ever think of works of supererogation, to obtain the esteem of 3025 9| overcome, which require almost superhuman powers.~ ~ A truly benevolent 3026 6| strength of mind to efface the superinductions of art that have smothered 3027 12| obliged to bear from their superiours.~ ~ This habitual cruelty 3028 8| did not too frequently supersede moral obligations. But, 3029 5| ears erect; but custom has superseded nature, and a token of fear 3030 12| which rapacious priests of superstitious memory have scraped together. 3031 9| much less by the negative supineness that wealth naturally generates.~ ~ 3032 12| sacrament of the Lord's supper, to avoid forfeiting half 3033 9| that with cumberous pomp supplied the place of domestic affections, 3034 4| fact, they are insultingly supporting their own superiority. It 3035 5| them too dear; and to the suppression of their caprices, that 3036 5| can be such barbarians, so supremely wicked, as to abuse it? 3037 9| instead of hanging their heads surcharged with the dew of sensibility, 3038 9| when principles would be a surer guard, only to sweeten the 3039 2| to be pursued below the surface, or opinions analyzed.~ ~ 3040 8| day, refute the ignorant surmise, or malicious tale, which 3041 5| difficult attempt does not surpass your courage.~ ~ 'Would 3042 4| says his historian, "he surpassed all his courtiers in the 3043 12| domestic affections, far surpassing the meretricious compliments 3044 11| poetry, has been supposed to surround the throne of Omnipotence, 3045 13| of ideal beauty, when he, surveyed with a penetrating eye, 3046 2| far from it, that, after surveying the history of woman, I 3047 Int| them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, 3048 8| good man may come to be suspected of a crime of which he was 3049 5| early imbibed these chilling suspicions, and repeated by rote the 3050 4| the idea of a number of swaggering apes of men, whose understandings 3051 2| If then women are not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why 3052 9| I may so express myself, swathed from their birth, seldom 3053 12| inflict it.~ ~ The vulgar are swayed by present feelings, and 3054 2| Vide Rousseau, and Swedenborg.~ ~ How women are to exist 3055 4| sterling talents, will ever sweep before it, the alternately 3056 9| stream of time, that silently sweeps all before it, into the 3057 7| pleased after breathing the sweet-bracing morning air, to see the 3058 2| alluring object of desire, a sweeter companion to man, whenever 3059 4| these;~ ~ Your BEST, your SWEETEST empire is - TO PLEASE.'~ ~ 3060 9| insignificant and contemptible, sweetly to waste 'life away,' let 3061 7| shades, breathing those coy sweets that steal into the heart, 3062 5| the world. We see a folly swell into a vice, by almost imperceptible 3063 12| the bills of mortality are swelled by the blunders of self-willed 3064 8| reverential adoration, that swells the heart without exciting 3065 8| and whose judgment never swerves from the eternal rule of 3066 11| fish muddy the water it swims in to elude its enemy, instead 3067 3| depraved being, if, like the Sybarites, dissolved in luxury every 3068 5| though formed with Medicean Symmetry, that was not slighted? 3069 9| and has even throbbed with sympathetic emotion, when the scraping 3070 5| convinced when they only sympathize with a poetic writer, who 3071 11| morality as those religious systems which do not allow right 3072 13| masters they learned how tables, chairs, &c. were called 3073 11| the epithet amiable may be tacked to it, a reasonable man 3074 4| opinion, in his plays, when he talks of the misfortune that shunned 3075 4| invading foes,~ ~ And the tall pine for future navies grows;~ ~ 3076 1| DEDICATION~ ~ To~ ~ M. Talleyrand-Perigord,~ ~ Late Bishop Of Autun.~ ~ 3077 13| attachment must expire, like a tallow candle in the socket, creating 3078 8| which reason laboured to tame.~ ~ The leading principles 3079 13| should never be thus forcibly tamed after it has injudiciously 3080 5| however, look for more tangible beauty; yet simplicity is, 3081 12| whom he tormented; or, the tartman, from whom he caught a cake, 3082 13| will be worse than Egyptian task-masters, expecting virtue where 3083 4| loftier forms are rougher tasks assign'd;~ ~ The sheltering 3084 5| and of consequence their tastes and inclinations, should 3085 13| ambition will appear in tattooing or painting it.~ ~ So far 3086 13| commonly expended in a little tawdry finery. And I have seldom 3087 12| lest they should dirty or tear their clothes.~ ~ The little 3088 4| brimful of sensibility, and teeming with capricious fancies; 3089 1| from the formation of the teeth, stomach, and intestines, 3090 5| her hand an Emilius or a Telemachus. Whilst, on the contrary, 3091 5| never speaking falsely or telling an untruth.' To govern the 3092 1| sufficiently punished his temerity, by introducing evil into 3093 5| be, constituted alike in temperament and character, it follows 3094 3| virtue is sacrificed to temporary gratifications, and the 3095 7| conceives a great plan, and tenaciously adheres to it, conscious 3096 4| support, with parasitical tenacity, piteously demanding succour; 3097 13| the most salutary effects tending to improve mankind might 3098 5| to conduct the shooting tendrils to a proper pole; yet after 3099 5| to lay down precisely the tenets they are to believe: for 3100 1| both is secured by feudal tenures. This appears to be the 3101 3| them to useless arts, which terminate in vanity and sensuality. 3102 8| violating some sacred duty, by terming it a sexual one, it would 3103 12| sketched; and whilst some terrific feature in nature has spread 3104 7| She now can all his terrors stand,~ ~ Nor from his squeeze 3105 4| Pleasure's the potion of th' inferior kind;~ ~ But glory, 3106 5| principle, they have probably to thank the force of their passions, 3107 4| will smile, though told that-~ ~ 'In beauty's empire is 3108 5| a brilliant part in the theatre of politics; yet in speaking 3109 12| but I contend that the theatrical pomp which gratifies our 3110 | thence 3111 4| dismissing these fanciful theories, and considering woman as 3112 4| the rich. In Dr. Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, I have 3113 12| him cherish for that fool Theresa. He could not raise her 3114 4| for them by the profound thinker, ought not to be disgusted, 3115 3| both enthusiasts and cooler thinkers fallen, when they laboured 3116 12| most sagacious physicians, thinned the human race, almost rejoiced 3117 5| Hence we deduce a third consequence from the different 3118 13| for pleasure with eager thirst, entertain the meanest opinion 3119 5| his sight and shew him the thorny path which led to eminence, 3120 3| to study the mind of man thoroughly, not the mind of man in 3121 5| with mind, that vain women thoughtlessly adopt. Yet they should know, 3122 13| make you shudder at your thoughtlessness, and irrational devotion. - 3123 11| weight to-day that they had a thousand years ago - and not a jot 3124 13| punishment of sin, snaps the thread of life.~ ~ Here an awful 3125 11| morality will stumble at the threshold. But, till society is very 3126 4| the one in which talents thrive best, extends not to women; 3127 7| humanity, rather than to throb with love. The woman who 3128 9| the group, and has even throbbed with sympathetic emotion, 3129 4| elevates the spirits or tickles the palate. The lively heated 3130 5| and none of the parts are tied together by what may properly 3131 8| become merely the selfish ties of convenience.~ ~ Why then 3132 12| still let the sluggish bell tinkle to prayers, as during the 3133 13| till it becomes only the tinsel-covering of vice; for whilst wealth 3134 5| her company, when he is tired of caressing her. - What 3135 5| flights, prove that it had a title to a better.~ ~ Besides, 3136 12| heads and turning out their toes, with shoulders braced back, 3137 5| superseded nature, and a token of fear is become a beauty.'~ ~ ' 3138 3| impotent regret. The serpent's tooth enters into her very soul, 3139 12| scare-crow of an usher, whom he tormented; or, the tartman, from whom 3140 5| good propensity to be a tormenting ignis fatuus.~ ~ Our trees 3141 4| and women be placed in a torrid zone, with the meridian 3142 5| together, or on an elephant, tortoise, or even the mighty shoulders 3143 13| female mind has been so totally neglected, that knowledge 3144 10| the baseless fabric should totter under investigation. Obedience, 3145 7| will give the finishing touches to the picture.~ ~ * I have 3146 Int| be brought to this simple touchstone.~ ~ This is a rough sketch 3147 4| the stormy wind,~ ~ The tougher yew repels invading foes,~ ~ 3148 | toward 3149 1| the inhabitants of country towns as the occasional residence 3150 2| She was created to be the toy of man, his rattle, and 3151 12| their childish attachment to toys, and the vanity that makes 3152 5| this habitual restraint a tractableness which women have occasion 3153 12| employments, or mechanical trades, ought to be removed to 3154 6| innocent pleasure; like the tradesman who retires from the hurry 3155 12| to the behaviour of the trading part of this great city.~ ~ 3156 9| sanctioning the abominable traffick. A minister is no longer 3157 13| penetrating eye, appears a tragicomedy, in which little can be 3158 3| But, supposing a woman, trained up to obedience, be married 3159 1| of barbarism. He saw vice tramping on virtue, and the semblance 3160 7| illustrate this remark. They trample on virgin bashfulness with 3161 12| well-meaning folly. For in the transactions of business it is much better 3162 6| we group our thoughts, or transcribe from the imagination the 3163 10| and mother be content to transfer the charge to hirelings; 3164 4| handsome, and, instead of transferring her fondness to her children, 3165 4| every instant to see him transformed into a ferocious beast. 3166 5| but its effects seem to be transmitted to posterity. Considering 3167 5| extremes, they are even more transported at their diversions than 3168 5| confidence succeeds to the transports of passion. Children often 3169 2| off their gaudy hereditary trappings: and if then women do not 3170 12| perverse fate forced me to travel with. Is it surprising that 3171 9| sacrifice every thing to tread on their heels. The most 3172 3| rational man, for we are not treading on romantic ground, though 3173 12| formulary of decorum, which treads on the heels of falsehood, 3174 2| of love is, I know, high treason against sentiment and fine 3175 4| valour, and beneficence, trembled, were abashed, and lost 3176 4| voice, to guard the lovely trembler - from what? Perhaps the 3177 3| that the eyes which her trembling hand closed, may still see 3178 2| his character may be a trial, but not an impediment to 3179 3| traces of humanity. And that tribes of men, like flocks of sheep, 3180 8| and have been refined by tribulation, find the serpent's egg 3181 3| their conduct to a higher tribunal, liable to error?~ ~ It 3182 5| pay the worthy writer this tribute of respect. I cannot, it 3183 12| punishments. They should be tried by their peers, which would 3184 3| the Father of spirits, it tries to govern itself by the 3185 13| glib tongues, and every trifle produces those phosphoric 3186 4| employments have rendered woman a trifler. Man, taking her* body the 3187 2| not a swarm of ephemeron triflers, why should they be kept 3188 4| and the whole mischief of trimmings, not to mention shopping, 3189 5| ornament; such as mirrours, trinkets, and dolls: the doll is 3190 1| over them by seizing the triple crown!~ ~ Such, indeed, 3191 7| holds dear. But, I have tripped unawares on fairy ground, 3192 5| right,' he then proceeds triumphantly to infer. Granted; - yet, 3193 7| in a waste, for he that triumphed in thy weakness is now pursuing 3194 12| society, where they are trodden under foot by the rich, 3195 12| day school; where a boy trudged in the morning, wet or dry, 3196 5| that lying, yet constantly trusted guide, the imagination, 3197 9| their heels. The most sacred trusts are then considered as sinecures, 3198 4| respect her, because she is a trusty servant. He lets her, to 3199 5| need to be acquainted with Tully's offices, to make a man 3200 5| situations, they will not be tumbled from a throne to a stool.~ ~ 3201 Int| periods, or in fabricating the turgid bombast of artificial feelings, 3202 3| destructive blast which desolates Turkey, and renders the men, as 3203 3| illicit sway, for, like Turkish bashaws, they have more 3204 9| use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, 3205 5| in the deepest shade of turpitude, and raises indignation; 3206 5| the sauces most proper for turtle; or, more profoundly intent 3207 10| night of ignorance, or the twilight of timid inquiry.~ ~ * L' 3208 2| shape their course by the twinkling of a mere satellite. Milton, 3209 4| have been spinning a top or twirling a hoop.~ ~ * Many other 3210 9| the matrimonial tie, and twisting esteem with fonder recollections, 3211 9| prim urchin continually twitching back the elbow to prevent 3212 3| and servants endure their tyrannical oppression. As they submit 3213 5| moment when he treats her tyrannically? Nature never dictated such 3214 2| of human excellence, have tyrannized over thousands of their 3215 3| She therefore pays her tythe of mint and cummin - and 3216 12| if she be not absolutely ugly, will always obtain great 3217 4| origin by panting after unattainable perfection; ever pursuing 3218 7| dear. But, I have tripped unawares on fairy ground, feeling 3219 5| would dare to violate the unblemished form of Chastity! Thou wretch! 3220 13| in the shades of time yet unborn, to whom would the secret 3221 1| and fear, must have had unbounded sway. An aristocracy, of 3222 8| appetites are more depraved by unbridled indulgence and the fastidious 3223 3| It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners. - 3224 8| difference, for that the unchaste man doubly defeats the purpose 3225 12| intercourse of sentiments unclogged by that observant seriousness 3226 6| every thing - excepting the unclouded Reason - 'Whose service 3227 10| investigation. Obedience, unconditional obedience, is the catch-word 3228 5| infidelity.'~ ~ Absolute, uncontroverted authority, it seems, must 3229 1| naturally flow, is equally undeniable, if mankind be viewed collectively.~ ~ 3230 9| they will be continually undermining it through ignorance or 3231 8| happiness are built, should be understood and cultivated by all mankind, 3232 13| pointed out what they ought to undertake. Yet the men who laid claim 3233 4| duties.~ ~ A man, when he undertakes a journey, has, in general, 3234 4| inflexible justice of all his undertakings, by the immense dangers 3235 12| schools argue, that they only undertook to teach Latin and Greek; 3236 3| the vague impulse of an undirected will, man must also follow 3237 5| habit is insisted upon as an undoubted indication of nature. I 3238 9| which before were only undulated by dimples, might restore 3239 5| confined views of partial unenlightened affection, which exclude 3240 2| beneath me set?~ ~ 'Among unequals what society~ ~ 'Can sort, 3241 5| passing by little instances of unevenness, caprice, or passion, giving 3242 4| slavery of any kind is unfavourable to human happiness and improvement.' - 3243 5| think alike, unless the unfledged reason of the former never 3244 4| whilst the judgment is left unformed, what can be expected to 3245 5| on some reason; yet not unfrequently, of course, it was rather 3246 3| men, as well as the soil, unfruitful.~ ~ Women are every where 3247 3| perceived that it was an ungraceful attitude, should be selected 3248 12| restraints, assumes the most ungracious aspect: not the sober austere 3249 5| amiable, and fearing lest unhappiness should only be the consequence, 3250 1| to notice. - Alas! what unheard of misery have thousands 3251 3| And the consequences are uniformly such as may be expected 3252 9| future part, make an absurd unit of a man and his wife; and 3253 4| this soft family, to cares unknown,~ ~ Were born for pleasure 3254 3| and always the wrong way. Unluckily, one day, as she was intent 3255 8| some very extraordinary and unlucky circumstance, a good man 3256 5| that I mean to analyze his unmanly, immoral system, or even 3257 4| have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.' I say 3258 3| heroes is now sunk into such unmerited contempt that men, as well 3259 9| very defective, and very unmindful of the happiness of one 3260 5| savage hand of rapine is unnerved by this chivalrous spirit; 3261 8| superiour natures. Virtues, unobserved by man, drop their balmy 3262 4| and thrown on the world, unprepared for its difficulties; or 3263 10| such is the perversity of unprincipled prejudices, the future welfare 3264 2| might be quoted to refute my unqualified assertion. For Pope has 3265 1| though not to the sensitive unreflecting wanderer, that man was born 3266 8| speaking, they deserve; for unremitting industry will mostly reach 3267 7| substitute for the ardour of unsatisfied passion; but to prolong 3268 11| which is only due to His unsearchable ways. But, let me not be 3269 12| exclaim, that woman would be unsexed by acquiring strength of 3270 1| have been plastered over unsightly ignorance, and the freedom 3271 8| plumed themselves on their unsullied reputation, as if the whole 3272 12| be turned in to crop the untrodden grass. The tyrant of this 3273 5| speaking falsely or telling an untruth.' To govern the tongue in 3274 5| slowly dispersing, silently unveil the beauties of nature, 3275 4| were attended, or by the unwearied and unrelenting application 3276 5| progressive state; and when an unwelcome knowledge of life produces 3277 12| that of brutes; yet men are unwilling to place women in situations 3278 6| unreasonable, as well as cruel, to upbraid them with faults that can 3279 4| compatible with that pliant urbanity which leads a man, at least, 3280 9| usefulness, to have a prim urchin continually twitching back 3281 12| which the children might be usefully exercised, for at this age 3282 5| Even recommending piety he uses the following argument. ' 3283 | using 3284 5| the first lessons that are usually taught these young females: 3285 2| These may be termed Utopian dreams. - Thanks to that 3286 1| every effort of genius; and, uttering the apotheosis of savage 3287 9| listlessness, and rolling round the vacant eye which plainly tells 3288 12| abilities, which during the vacation is shewn to every visitor,* 3289 13| interesting, and to break the vacuum of ignorance.~ ~ I must 3290 13| following the fashionable vagaries of dress, the management 3291 13| Rome, but to promote its vain-glory; and, in general, it is 3292 12| source of comfort in this vale of tears! how has thy clear 3293 6| witty, so graceful, and so valiant: and can they deserve blame 3294 13| same rule, their duties vanish, for rights and duties are 3295 2| sets them above the little vanities of the day, or enables them 3296 7| is mean when they merely vanquish sensibility. The real conquest 3297 6| complaints, and all the vapourish train of idleness, rendered 3298 8| and its shadow are set at variance. We should never, perhaps, 3299 2| exertions, or insipid softness, varnished over with the name of gentleness, 3300 9| of an heir apparent, or varnishes the chariot of some female 3301 5| company; for thus, for ever varying the key, a flat would often 3302 5| slave of love.~ ~ -'Curs'd vassalage,~ ~ 'First idoliz'd till 3303 1| have been so steeped in the vat consecrated by authority, 3304 5| only become the support of vegetable life, and invigorate a cabbage, 3305 3| to rail with thoughtless vehemence at innovation.~ ~ The mother, 3306 5| I shall pass over her vehement argument in favour of the 3307 5| voluptuously shadowed or gracefully veiled - And thus making us feel 3308 3| that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and 3309 12| in their generation, they venerate the prescriptive right of 3310 1| be pent up; and, getting vent in foreign wars and intestine 3311 12| hope, are turned sour, and vented in vain wishes or pert repinings, 3312 8| is crowned with smiling verdure; this is the living green 3313 5| that indeed would be the veriest meteor, the wildest fire 3314 12| our clergy; for the idle vermin who two or three times a 3315 Int| characteristics of the weaker vessel, I wish to shew that elegance 3316 5| organized, I fear, this vestige of gothic manners will not 3317 5| our researches. Vanity and vexation close every inquiry: for 3318 5| they contend with the most vexatious worldly cares, and bear 3319 12| heart, and responsively vibrating with each emotion, that 3320 3| they to be considered as viceregents allowed to reign over a 3321 3| miserable; or becomes the victim of discontent and blind 3322 13| contempt on those who could not vie with them in dress and parade.~ ~ 3323 4| mass of mankind will never vigorously pursue an intellectual object,* 3324 7| Chap. VII.~ ~Modesty. - Comprehensively 3325 8| Chap. VIII.~ ~Morality Undermined by 3326 5| when the son detects his villany, and following the dictates 3327 4| strictness I have heard vindicated as a salutary error. I shall 3328 1| which the grape of his own vine yields cannot be distinguished.~ ~ 3329 Int| readers to suppose that I mean violently to agitate the contested 3330 7| perfume, stolen from the violet, that memory long holds 3331 4| or say~ ~ 'Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best;~ ~ ' 3332 4| alas! Rousseau, respectable visionary! thy paradise would soon 3333 12| vacation is shewn to every visitor,* is productive of more 3334 12| Not, indeed, put on for visitors like the courtly robe of 3335 7| bashfulness, the charm of vivacious youth.~ ~ And thus have 3336 12| them will continue to be vivid and transitory, unless a 3337 3| Day's Sandford and Merton, Vol. III.~ ~ But should it be 3338 6| passions might not be fine volatile fluids that embraced humanity, 3339 5| tongues of women are very voluble; they speak earlier, more 3340 4| Supposing that women are voluntary slaves - slavery of any 3341 5| the objects of sense, most voluptuously shadowed or gracefully veiled - 3342 5| called, reminds me of what is vulgarly termed a woman's reason. 3343 Adv| M. W. ADVERTISEMENT~ ~ When I 3344 4| her just reward; for the wages due to her are the caresses 3345 7| intimates, or ladies and their waiting-women, to be so grossly familiar 3346 3| thus fulfilled, she calmly waits for the sleep of death, 3347 7| own weak head, when reason wakes. For where art thou to find 3348 12| school-room, &c. but whilst I walked down a broad gravel walk, 3349 1| the sensitive unreflecting wanderer, that man was born to run 3350 11| proportion of the misery that wanders, in hideous forms, around 3351 9| that I know not what is wanted to render this the happiest 3352 4| understanding, whilst the heart is warmed by the generous juices of 3353 13| secures to the pledges of a warmer passion the necessary parental 3354 5| religion which consists in warming the affections, and exalting 3355 1| civilization a curse, and warps the understanding, till 3356 4| character. For if, excepting warriors, no great men, of any denomination, 3357 5| pursuing shadows, and anxiously wasting their powers to feed passions 3358 8| have calmed my soul, when watching the rising sun, a soft shower 3359 11| which makes a fish muddy the water it swims in to elude its 3360 12| narrow channel, the living waters that ever flow towards God - 3361 2| But, for the present, I wave the subject, and, instead 3362 9| if duties could ever be waved, and the vain pleasures 3363 5| heat when they begin to waver; striving to drive out their 3364 5| instead of instruction. These, weakening the mind, Nature was supposed 3365 12| The sons of our gentry and wealthy commoners are mostly educated 3366 2| pleasure, or the languor of weariness, rather than assert their 3367 1| cast of countenance that wears off as you trace his individuality, 3368 9| her husband, who returning weary home in the evening found 3369 4| infancy, has been made the weathercock of its own sensations. Whoever 3370 13| to his son-in-law on his wedding day, that a husband may 3371 12| or four mornings in the week, the schools appropriated 3372 2| their husbands; or, days and weeks are spent in dreaming of 3373 1| their reason, become dead weights of vice and folly on the 3374 1| ignorant, intermeddle with more weighty affairs, neglecting private 3375 4| virtue, is drawn from the well-attested fact, that in the countries 3376 1| mixing frequently with well-bred women, catch a sentimental 3377 12| the rain beats against the well-closed windows which do not admit 3378 3| for granted, that she was well-disposed, though experience shews, 3379 5| bandage, will smile on a well-educated female, and bring in her 3380 12| displays the active limbs and well-knit joints, grace and modesty 3381 12| blundering interposition of well-meaning folly. For in the transactions 3382 9| attunes the passions of a well-regulated mind, that I blush at making 3383 12| trudged in the morning, wet or dry, carrying his books, 3384 1| subject, threw away the wheat with the chaff, without 3385 5| boys to this motive.~ ~ 'Whencesoever girls derive this first 3386 5| when he should be no more! Wherefore this struggle, whether man 3387 11| clash till they rest on mere whims and customs, little can 3388 4| is more singular in this whimsical nation, say I to the Athenians, 3389 13| fresh trade with Russia for whips; a present which a father 3390 9| withdrawing from the giddy whirl of pleasure, or the indolent 3391 5| not whether we mount in a whirlwind or descend in rain. And 3392 7| act nobly, or let pride whisper to them, that the victory 3393 5| inferred, that reason has whispered some doubts, for it generally 3394 9| out an almost empty purse, whispering at the same time some prudential 3395 1| knowledge denied to the brutes; whispers Experience.~ ~ Consequently 3396 12| have been concentrated at whist, are manufactured out of 3397 8| though her reputation may be white as the driven snow, who 3398 9| sentinels on horseback at Whitehall, which I could never view 3399 5| barbarians, so supremely wicked, as to abuse it? Can you 3400 13| libertines of both sexes, is widely different in its essence 3401 2| understanding should ever coolly wield, appears less wild.~ ~ Youth 3402 13| violation of justice reign, wielding this sceptre, sole master 3403 5| the veriest meteor, the wildest fire that could lure a man 3404 12| makes them employ those wiles, that often frustrate the 3405 1| here, saw the fair idea, he willed, by allowing it to be so, 3406 9| many an agitated bosom, nor willingly resign the privileges of 3407 12| domain used to sit by a window that overlooked the prison 3408 12| against the well-closed windows which do not admit a breath 3409 9| attaining this respectability by withdrawing from the giddy whirl of 3410 7| Nor from his squeeze withdraws her hand,~ ~ She plays familiar 3411 11| seems to have no right to withhold his consent on any account; 3412 7| indecent allusions, or obscene witticisms, in the presence of a fellow 3413 6| for a Lovelace; a man so witty, so graceful, and so valiant: 3414 13| plunged into never ending woe - is blasphemy. On what 3415 12| mind have uncommon vigour, womanish follies will stick to the 3416 13| or, do they effect these wonderful cures by supernatural aid?~ ~ 3417 2| his eloquent periods are wont to raise, when I read his 3418 5| hope, and fear, exert their wonted power, though we be convinced 3419 9| must be torn up, and the woods cleared by fire and sword, 3420 6| lovers, they become abject wooers, and fond slaves.~ ~ Men 3421 5| a very early age, by the wordly and pious cautions they 3422 13| and piety. But the present workers of wonders are not raised 3423 13| be foreseen by a vicious worldling, who pampers his appetites 3424 12| the virtue of men will be worm-eaten by the insect whom he keeps 3425 5| induced to fancy her already worshipping amongst her kindred angels!' 3426 3| it in the object that he worships, or blindly to invest it 3427 5| to which the only hopes worth cherishing should not be 3428 9| counter-march like soldiers, or wrangle in the senate to keep their 3429 5| be obliged to be always wrapped up in himself, and to have 3430 4| Pleasure prepares the fading wreath, and mixes the intoxicating 3431 4| yellow hair,~ ~ And flowery wreaths consenting lovers wear.~ ~ 3432 1| Such, indeed, has been the wretchedness that has flowed from hereditary 3433 7| But these poor ignorant wretches never had any modesty to 3434 12| them; or, by the serpentine wrigglings of cunning they mount the 3435 7| Thou that smoothest the wrinkles of wisdom, and softenest 3436 5| understanding than fancy, she writes with sober energy and argumentative 3437 10| Chap. X.~ ~Parental Affection.~ ~ 3438 11| Chap. XI.~ ~Duty to Parents.~ ~ There 3439 12| Chap. XII.~ ~On National Education.~ ~ 3440 13| Chap. XIII.~ ~Some Instances of the 3441 4| govern the world. Lewis XIV during the greater part 3442 4| anticipated.~ ~ Lewis the XIVth, in particular, spread factitious 3443 5| disgusting description of the Yahoos, and insipid one of Houyhnhnm 3444 12| that overlooked the prison yard, and one nook turning from 3445 8| chasm of perdition, that yawns to receive them. - No! no! 3446 4| flowers the Graces bind their yellow hair,~ ~ And flowery wreaths 3447 4| stormy wind,~ ~ The tougher yew repels invading foes,~ ~ 3448 5| the woman's weakness that yielded to his superior strength, 3449 | yours 3450 4| women be placed in a torrid zone, with the meridian sun of