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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... practice of tight lacing is one which finds but two parallels within our memory . Those are the bandaging of the feet of the Chinese infants , and the stuffing of the young girls among the Moors . The Chinese women are partially ...
... practice of tight lacing is one which finds but two parallels within our memory . Those are the bandaging of the feet of the Chinese infants , and the stuffing of the young girls among the Moors . The Chinese women are partially ...
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... practiced in early ages , and from prodigies she had seen in the air - such probably as are seen by those gifted with the second - sight . In ancient Egypt , the women managed the greatest part of the business transactions out of doors ...
... practiced in early ages , and from prodigies she had seen in the air - such probably as are seen by those gifted with the second - sight . In ancient Egypt , the women managed the greatest part of the business transactions out of doors ...
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... practice , who has not had cases under his observation . Courtship , while love is supported by hope , is a condition of the sweetest delirium of the soul . It is not easy to des- cribe briefly what so many dramas and romances have been ...
... practice , who has not had cases under his observation . Courtship , while love is supported by hope , is a condition of the sweetest delirium of the soul . It is not easy to des- cribe briefly what so many dramas and romances have been ...
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... practice of hav- ing a plurality of wives , introduced in the life - time of Adam , has ever since been the custom of the greatest por- tion of the world ; and this custom is so fixed , so seemingly ineradicable , that even Christian ...
... practice of hav- ing a plurality of wives , introduced in the life - time of Adam , has ever since been the custom of the greatest por- tion of the world ; and this custom is so fixed , so seemingly ineradicable , that even Christian ...
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... practice . Thus Jupiter had only his Juno ; Pluto his Proserpine ; Osiris his Isis ; and the stolen amours of the gods , with the jealousies of their wives , point very significantly to the idea of confining the relation to a single ...
... practice . Thus Jupiter had only his Juno ; Pluto his Proserpine ; Osiris his Isis ; and the stolen amours of the gods , with the jealousies of their wives , point very significantly to the idea of confining the relation to a single ...
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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...