A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of WomanLongmans, Green & Company, [Madras printed], 1898 - 234 páginas |
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A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough Visualização integral - 1898 |
A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough Visualização integral - 1898 |
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Analytical Review Anton Menger argument Burke Burke's cause character Christian Christian Gotthilf Salzmann civilization claims concerning considered craft critic daughter degree demands duties edition Edmund Burke effect Emile England equality evidently evil Fanny favor female French Revolution German give Godwin says heart Hippel's Horace Walpole husband Ibid influence intellectual justice Kegan Paul Letters to Imlay liberty literary London looked Lord Kingsborough Maria marriage Mary Woll Mary Wollstone Mary Wollstonecraft Mary's Memoirs ment mental mind moral inferiority mother nature opinions parents philosophical political possession present century principles published question reason reformer regarded religious rendered respect Richard Price Rights of Woman Rousseau Saint Simonians Salzmann Schlabrendorf Schnepfenthal seems sentiments Shelley social society spirit stonecraft Theodor Mundt thought tion to-day truth Ueber views Vindication virtue William Godwin women writes Wrongs of Woman
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Página 21 - They say that thou wert lovely from thy birth, Of glorious parents, thou aspiring Child. I wonder not— for One then left this earth Whose life was like a setting planet mild, Which clothed thee in the radiance undefiled Of its departing glory ; still her fame Shines on thee, through the tempests dark and wild Which shake these latter days ; and thou canst claim The shelter, from thy Sire, of an immortal name.
Página 104 - Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company. — But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret, especially from the men, who generally look with a jealous and malignant eye on a woman of great parts, and a cultivated understanding.
Página 134 - Fragile in every sense of the word, they are obliged to look up to man for every comfort. In the most trifling dangers they cling to their support, with parasitical tenacity, piteously demanding succour; and their natural protector extends his arm, or lifts up his voice, to guard the lovely trembler- from what? Perhaps the frown of an old cow, or the jump of a mouse; a rat, would be a serious danger.
Página 55 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and Fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries, communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God.
Página 183 - I think it necessary to say on the present occasion is, that for more than four years I have been anxious for opportunity and leisure to modify some of the earlier chapters of that work in conformity to the sentiments inculcated in this.
Página 135 - Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, everything else is needless, for, at least, twenty years of their lives.
Página 142 - I have turned over various books written on the subject of education, and patiently observed the conduct of parents and the management of schools ; but what has been the result ? — a profound conviction that the neglected education of my fellowcreatures is the grand source of the misery I deplore...
Página 99 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Página 93 - I will venture to affirm, that a girl, whose spirits have not been damped by inactivity, or innocence tainted by false shame, will always be a romp, and the doll will never excite attention unless confinement allows her no alternative.
Página 100 - But had you behaved to them with more respectful observance, and a more equal tenderness ; studying their humours, overlooking their mistakes, submitting to their opinions in matters indifferent, passing by little instances of unevenness, caprice, or passion, giving soft answers to hasty words, complaining as seldom as possible...