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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... live in history . Their houses were the resort of statesmen and philoso- phers ; and some took their wives to be instructed in the elegant manners in which the Grecian ladies must have been generally so deficient . It would be difficult ...
... live in history . Their houses were the resort of statesmen and philoso- phers ; and some took their wives to be instructed in the elegant manners in which the Grecian ladies must have been generally so deficient . It would be difficult ...
Page 66
... lives , to be indissolubly united by the marriage tie . In regard to all these countries , we shall have much to say , under our next head of Marriage , but in treating of Courtship , we must confine ourselves to countries where the ...
... lives , to be indissolubly united by the marriage tie . In regard to all these countries , we shall have much to say , under our next head of Marriage , but in treating of Courtship , we must confine ourselves to countries where the ...
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... live together in the connubial relation . In a higher sense , marriage is the union of mutual love , attend- ed with the highest perfection of human existence and happiness . As the real marriage of mutual love does not always exist ...
... live together in the connubial relation . In a higher sense , marriage is the union of mutual love , attend- ed with the highest perfection of human existence and happiness . As the real marriage of mutual love does not always exist ...
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... lives , and invoked the gods in their most simple and familiar labors and pastimes . All nations , of whom we have any historical account , ascribe the regulation of marriages to their first lawgivers . Thus Menes , first king of Egypt ...
... lives , and invoked the gods in their most simple and familiar labors and pastimes . All nations , of whom we have any historical account , ascribe the regulation of marriages to their first lawgivers . Thus Menes , first king of Egypt ...
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... lives . In Sparta the men were all soldiers - the women , only the mothers of soldiers . Everything like effeminacy was carefully avoided . The laws of Sparta - noble in many respects - seem perfectly detestable in regard to the ...
... lives . In Sparta the men were all soldiers - the women , only the mothers of soldiers . Everything like effeminacy was carefully avoided . The laws of Sparta - noble in many respects - seem perfectly detestable in regard to the ...
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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...