... 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... Life of Mary Wollstonecraft - Página 149por Elizabeth Robins Pennell - 1884 - 360 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Mary Wollstonecraft - 1833 - 234 páginas
...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. In the name of reason, and even common sense, what can save such... | |
| Elizabeth Robins Pennell - 1885 - 226 páginas
...consider immediate rather than remote effects, and prefer to be " short-lived queens than to labour to attain the sober pleasures that arise from equality.''...still be more generally adopted to great advantage. The chapter on Paternal Affection introduces an important section of the treatise. It is not enough... | |
| Elizabeth Robins Pennell - 1885 - 228 páginas
...which is instinctive in all human beings, is gratified in women by the homage paid to charms T>orn of indolence. They thus, like the rich, lose the stimulus...still be more generally adopted to great advantage. The chapter on Paternal Affection introduces an important section of the treatise. It is not enough... | |
| Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough - 1898 - 286 páginas
...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. In the name of reason, and even common sense, what can save such... | |
| Margaret Anne Doody - 1988 - 484 páginas
...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. In the name of reason, and even common sense, what can save such beings... | |
| Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 páginas
...they become increasingly dependent on men, so weak that they cling to their "natural protector"10* from "the frown of an old cow, or the jump of a mouse; a rat, would be a serious danger" (131). She called this "imbecility which degrades a rational creature"... | |
| Valeria Tinkler-Villani, Peter Davidson, Jane Stevenson - 1995 - 338 páginas
...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. In the name of reason, and even common sense, what can save such beings... | |
| Mary Wollstonecraft - 1995 - 396 páginas
...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. In the name of reason, and even common sense, what can save such... | |
| Peter Loptson - 1998 - 588 páginas
...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. In the name of reason, and even common sense, what can save such beings... | |
| William Stafford - 2002 - 266 páginas
...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.1 35 This passage is typical of Wollstonecraft' s contempt for a large... | |
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