Woman in All Ages and Nations: A Complete and Authentic History of the Manners and Customs, Character and Condition of the Female Sex, in Civilized and Savage Countries, from the Earliest Ages to the Present TimeFowlers and Wells, 1849 - 240 pages |
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... honors , which are monopolized by the other sex . Modern reform has made its gradual approaches toward the central fortress of conservatism , which environs the character and functions of Woman , and has halted to take breath before the ...
... honors , which are monopolized by the other sex . Modern reform has made its gradual approaches toward the central fortress of conservatism , which environs the character and functions of Woman , and has halted to take breath before the ...
Page v
... honor , consideration , reputation , and enjoyment , will depend on use . " These and some similar phrases occur elsewhere , which , to one acquainted with the technology of Social Science , rather than to the common reader , indicate ...
... honor , consideration , reputation , and enjoyment , will depend on use . " These and some similar phrases occur elsewhere , which , to one acquainted with the technology of Social Science , rather than to the common reader , indicate ...
Page vii
... honor , whether the poet or novelist be male or female . race . The history of Woman is , of necessity , a history of the whole human It is broader and deeper than any ordinary history can be . The history of man is one of war ...
... honor , whether the poet or novelist be male or female . race . The history of Woman is , of necessity , a history of the whole human It is broader and deeper than any ordinary history can be . The history of man is one of war ...
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... honor to be invited , all the ladies , and their atten- dants , remained for some hours talking , walking about , and amusing themselves , just as they came out of the bath , and with no more drapery than the Greek Slave or the Venus di ...
... honor to be invited , all the ladies , and their atten- dants , remained for some hours talking , walking about , and amusing themselves , just as they came out of the bath , and with no more drapery than the Greek Slave or the Venus di ...
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... honored , and almost adored - in the greater part of the world , and much oftener , they have been held in contempt ... honor : " Women have six qualities : the first , an inordinate desire for jewels and fine furniture , handsome ...
... honored , and almost adored - in the greater part of the world , and much oftener , they have been held in contempt ... honor : " Women have six qualities : the first , an inordinate desire for jewels and fine furniture , handsome ...
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Page 158 - The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
Page 86 - M., wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honor, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live ? The man shall answer : I will.
Page 158 - He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise. He has compelled her to submit to laws in the formation of which she had no voice. He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men — both natives and foreigners.
Page 202 - I never addressed myself, in the language of decency and friendship, without receiving a decent and friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise.
Page 158 - He has made her, morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master— the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement.
Page 202 - ... the appellation of benevolence,) these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweetest draught, and if hungry, I ate the coarse morsel with a double relish.
Page 158 - He has endeavored, in every way that he could, to destroy her confidence in her own powers, ,to lessen her self-respect and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.
Page 32 - What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor ? " saith the Lord God of Hosts. Moreover the Lord saith, " Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...
Page 86 - I, M., take thee, N., to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my faith.
Page 86 - Wilt thou have this Man to thy wedded husband, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou...