 | John Stuart Mill - 1989 - 336 pages
...descending scale arc men to whom arc committed all the legal powers of a husband. The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom...except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty. And how many thousands are there among the lowest classes... | |
 | Jennifer Ring - 1991 - 244 pages
...his share of the power equally with the highest nobleman" (12). Now he claims, The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom...can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerantly cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty. And how many thousands are... | |
 | Mike Gane - 1993 - 252 pages
...was prepared to take this bitter line of argument to the limit on this point: 'the vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom...except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty'. What exists, he claims, is a form of society which... | |
 | Mary Briody Mahowald - 1994 - 552 pages
...descending scale are men to whom are committed all the legal powers of a husband. The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom...except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty. . . . What is it then, which really tempers the corrupting... | |
 | Kelly Dawn Askin - 1997 - 478 pages
...Mill (1806-1873) observed practical effects of treating women as man's property: The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom...except killing her, and if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty. . . .[W]e [must] consider how vast is the number of... | |
 | 1975 - 532 pages
...they are fit to be trusted with absolute power over another human being. . . The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom...can commit any atrocity except killing her— and even that he can do without too much danger of legal penalty. How many men are there who . . . indulge... | |
 | Laura L. O'Toole, Jessica R. Schiffman - 1997 - 540 pages
...the plight of battered women in England. His compelling concern for wives "against whom [a husband] can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty" (Mill 1983, 57) helped to mobilize efforts to rewrite... | |
 | Kate Millett - 2000 - 422 pages
...or for want of a witness."79 Further down the rungs of connubial sensibility: "the vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom...except killing her, and if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty."80 Such occasions were a favorite Victorian theme, particularly... | |
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The vilest malefactor has some wretched woman tied to him, against whom he can commit any atrocity except killing her, and, if tolerably cautious, can do that without much danger of the legal penalty. 
