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... object ; she wills it ; she yields to the governing principle of her mind ; she takes it for granted that it is for her benefit so to do , and she stretches forth her hand ; she takes of the fruit , and eats ! This act of Eve's has been ...
... object ; she wills it ; she yields to the governing principle of her mind ; she takes it for granted that it is for her benefit so to do , and she stretches forth her hand ; she takes of the fruit , and eats ! This act of Eve's has been ...
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... object to which it referred had attracted her eye ; for it is evident , by her answer to the Tempter , that she had considered the tree and knew it : but it is equally evident that she had respected the injunction con- cerning it ...
... object to which it referred had attracted her eye ; for it is evident , by her answer to the Tempter , that she had considered the tree and knew it : but it is equally evident that she had respected the injunction con- cerning it ...
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... objects of their regard , by fatally exerting all their powers , and all their influence , to subjugate the un- derstanding of the Man , against his better judg- ment , to the feminine principle of the will ? St. Ambrose , indeed ...
... objects of their regard , by fatally exerting all their powers , and all their influence , to subjugate the un- derstanding of the Man , against his better judg- ment , to the feminine principle of the will ? St. Ambrose , indeed ...
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... " What an awful decree to the affections ! that their tenderest progeny should involve suffering and sorrow " greatly multiplied ; " that their de- sire should be to one chosen cherished object , which THE FEMININE SOUL . 25.
... " What an awful decree to the affections ! that their tenderest progeny should involve suffering and sorrow " greatly multiplied ; " that their de- sire should be to one chosen cherished object , which THE FEMININE SOUL . 25.
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Elizabeth Strutt. sire should be to one chosen cherished object , which object should rule over them , perhaps , nay too probably , with a rule despotic , harsh , unjust ! for alas ! how rarely in fallen man , has power brought forth ...
Elizabeth Strutt. sire should be to one chosen cherished object , which object should rule over them , perhaps , nay too probably , with a rule despotic , harsh , unjust ! for alas ! how rarely in fallen man , has power brought forth ...
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Page 213 - Twas my distress that brought thee low, My Mary! Thy needles, once a shining store, For my sake restless heretofore, Now rust disused, and shine no more; My Mary! For though thou gladly wouldst fulfil The same kind office for me still, Thy sight now seconds not thy will, My Mary!
Page 191 - Not as a child shall we again behold her ; For when with raptures wild In our embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child ; But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace ; And beautiful with all the soul's expansion Shall we behold her face.
Page 20 - Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.
Page 4 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof...
Page 5 - And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Page 203 - The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment : for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Page 50 - Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'For this cause shall a man leave father and mother and shall cleave to his wife; and they twain shall be one flesh'? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 7 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field...
Page 114 - But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping. And as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.
Page 33 - And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, she saw the child and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him and said, this is one of the Hebrews