Woman Physiologically Considered, as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and DivorceJ. & H. G. Langley, 1840 - 432 sider |
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Side 19
... sense and observing facul ties larger in woman.- . - Her sensibility excessive . - Her reasoning faculties small . - Instinct her compensation for this . - First species of instinct . - Its first variety ; the infant's sucking explained ...
... sense and observing facul ties larger in woman.- . - Her sensibility excessive . - Her reasoning faculties small . - Instinct her compensation for this . - First species of instinct . - Its first variety ; the infant's sucking explained ...
Side 20
... sense of what is fitting . - Her politeness . - Her vanity . - Madame de Stael's opinion on this subject . — The affec- tions of woman . - Her sentiments . - Mrs . Macauley's abuse of Lord Bacon , & c . - The friendship of woman ...
... sense of what is fitting . - Her politeness . - Her vanity . - Madame de Stael's opinion on this subject . — The affec- tions of woman . - Her sentiments . - Mrs . Macauley's abuse of Lord Bacon , & c . - The friendship of woman ...
Side 30
... sense and dependent on every change in their structure , volition which is equally dependent on the cerebal , as both observation and experiments prove , and perception , combining , comparing , determining , & c . , which are all acts ...
... sense and dependent on every change in their structure , volition which is equally dependent on the cerebal , as both observation and experiments prove , and perception , combining , comparing , determining , & c . , which are all acts ...
Side 35
... sense , a larger fore- head and more powerful observing faculties - depend- ing on the cerebral masses which form that part , and of this the case just stated affords satisfactory proof . In measuring from before one ear , obliquely ...
... sense , a larger fore- head and more powerful observing faculties - depend- ing on the cerebral masses which form that part , and of this the case just stated affords satisfactory proof . In measuring from before one ear , obliquely ...
Side 38
... sense ' pro- portionally larger , and more delicately outlined , than man ; and the whole nervous matter is characterized by its softness , delicacy , and mobility . In consequence of this organization , the first to be especially dwelt ...
... sense ' pro- portionally larger , and more delicately outlined , than man ; and the whole nervous matter is characterized by its softness , delicacy , and mobility . In consequence of this organization , the first to be especially dwelt ...
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Woman Physiologically Considered, as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial ... Alexander Walker Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1840 |
Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial ... Alexander Walker Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1840 |
Woman Physiologically Considered as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial ... Alexander Walker Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1898 |
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Populære avsnitt
Side 351 - O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace...
Side 224 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Side 234 - ... where love cannot be, there can be left of wedlock nothing but the empty husk of an outside matrimony, as undelightful and unpleasing to God as any other kind of hypocrisy.
Side 383 - And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.
Side 112 - A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other : any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.
Side 233 - Love though not wholly blind, as poets wrong him, yet having but one eye, as being born an archer aiming and that eye not the quickest in this dark region here below, which is not love's proper sphere, partly out of the simplicity and credulity which is native to him, often deceived, embraces and consorts him with these obvious and suborned striplings, as if they were his mother's own sons ; for so he thinks them, while they subtilly keep themselves most on his blind side.
Side 173 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart ; 'Tis woman's whole existence...
Side 249 - ... sloth which is really unfit for conversation; nor is there that freedom of access granted or presumed, as may suffice to a perfect discerning till too late ; and where any indisposition is suspected, what more usual than the persuasion of friends, that acquaintance, as it increases, will amend all...
Side 230 - That indisposition, unfitness, or contrariety of mind, arising from a cause in nature unchangeable, hindering and ever likely to hinder the main benefits of conjugal society, which are solace and peace...
Side 228 - He who marries, intends as little to conspire his own ruine, as he that swears Allegiance: and as a whole people is in proportion to an ill Government, so is one man to an ill marriage.