 Dismissing, then, those pretty feminine phrases, which the men condescendingly use to soften our slavish dependence, and despising that weak elegancy of mind, exquisite sensibility, and sweet docility of manners, supposed to be the sexual characteristics...  Life of Mary Wollstonecraft - Página 141por Elizabeth Robins Pennell - 1884 - 360 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1796 - 504 páginas
...characteriftics of the weaker vefTel, I wifh to fhew that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the firft object of laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human being, regardlefs of the diftindtion of fex ; and that fecondary views fhould be brought to this fimple touchftone.... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1833 - 234 páginas
...sensibility, and sweet docility of manners, supposed to be the sexual characteristics of the weaker vessel, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first object of laudable ambition is-to obtain a character as a human being, regardless ot' the distinction of sex; and that secondary... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - 1868 - 538 páginas
...sensibility, and sweet docility of manners, supposed to be the sexual characteristics of the weaker vessel, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue,...views should be brought to this simple touch-stone. If, then, it can be fairly deduced from the present conduct of the sex, from the prevalent fondness... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 páginas
...sensibility, and sweet docility of manners, supposed to be the sexual characteristics of the weaker vessel, then upon very good terms, for he soon got me the...me afterwards, because I would not write paragraphs This is a rough sketch of my plan ; and should I express my conviction with the energetic emotions... | |
 | Women - 1881 - 88 páginas
...placed on this earth to improve their faculties,' reminding her readers that ' the first object of a laudable ambition is to obtain a character as a human...being, regardless of the distinction of sex ; and all secondary views should be brought to this simple touchstone. . . . Reason is consequently the simple... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 páginas
...sensibility, and sweet docility of manners, supposed to be thf sexual characteristics of the weaker vessel, I wish to show that elegance is inferior to virtue,...regardless of the distinction of sex ; and that secondary TJew» should be brought to this simple touchstone. This is a rough sketch of my plan ; and should... | |
 | 1899 - 642 páginas
...do„cility of manners, supposed to be the sexual characteristics of „the weaker vessel, I wish to shew that elegance is inferior to „virtue, that the first...ambition is to obtain a „character as a human being, r.'-gardless of the distinction of sex; „and that secondary views should be brought to this simple... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1891 - 314 páginas
...docility of manners, supposed to be the sexual characteristics of the weaker vessel, I wish to shew that elegance is inferior to virtue, that the first...views should be brought to this simple touchstone. This is a rough sketch of my plan ; and should I express my conviction with the energetic emotions... | |
 | G Fuldauer - 1899 - 640 páginas
...do„cility of manners , supposed to be the sexual characteristics of „the weaker vessel, 'I wish to shew that elegance is inferior to „virtue, that the first...ambition is to obtain a „character as a human being, rcgardless of the distinction of sex; „and that secondary views should be brought to this simple... | |
 | 1917 - 722 páginas
...erwiesen sehen, und sie nicht mehr nur wegen ihrer geschlechtlichen reize allein umworben wissen. ..." the first object of laudable ambition is to obtain...human being , regardless of the distinction of sex ') • • • To render women truly useful members of society, I argue that they should be led, by... | |
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