 | 1794 - 540 pages
...treating on dóm, prefence of mind, patience, vigour, capacity, application, are not fexual qualities i they belong to mankind — to all who have duties...a moft degrading idea of the female fex, that they mud owe their influence to trick ,md finelTe, to counterfeit or real weaknefs. They are too eifential... | |
 | Great Britain - 1795 - 916 pages
...rather form the two sexes to a resemblance of character, than contrast them. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, patience, vigour, capacity, application,...have duties to perform and evils to endure. It is surely a most degrading idea of the female sex, that they must owe their influence to trick and finesse,... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...rather form the two sexes to a resemblance of character, than contrast them. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, patience, vigour, capacity, application, are not sexual qualities ; they belong to mankind....to all who have duties to perform and evils to endure. It is surely a most degrading idea... | |
 | James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 pages
...rather form the two sexes to a resemblance of character, than contrast them. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, patience, vigour, capacity, application,...all who have duties to perform and evils to endure." (P. 340.) "Having thus endeavoured to give you just ideas of the principal requisites in a wife, especially... | |
 | John Aikin, Lucy Aikin - English poetry - 1823 - 446 pages
...a resemblance of character, than contrast them. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, patience, vigor, capacity, application, are not sexual qualities ;...have duties to perform and evils to endure. It is surely a most degrading idea of the female sex, that they must owe their influence to trick and finesse,... | |
 | John Aikin, Lucy Aikin - Critics - 1824 - 500 pages
...rather form the two sexes to a resemblance of character, than contrast them. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, patience, vigour, capacity, application,...mankind, — to all who have duties to perform and evils to1 endure, tt is surely a most degrading idea of the female sex, that they must owe their influence... | |
 | William M. Dunning - Marriage - 1835 - 456 pages
...a resemblance of character, than contrast them. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, patience, viguor, capacity, application, are not sexual qualities; they...have duties to perform and evils to endure. It is surely a most degrading idea of the female sex, that they must owe their influence to trick and finesse,... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 pages
...rather form the two sexes to a resemblance of character than contrast them. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, patience, vigour, capacity, application,...have duties to perform, and evils to endure. It is surely a most degrading idea of the female sex that they must owe their influence to trick and finesse,... | |
 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...rather form the two sexes to a resemblance of character, than contrast them. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, patience, vigour, capacity, application,...have duties to perform and evils to endure. It is surely a most degrading idea of the female sex, that they must owe their influence to trick and finesse,... | |
 | Shawn Johansen - Family & Relationships - 2001 - 268 pages
...rather form the two sexes to a resemblance of character, than contrast them. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, patience, vigour, capacity, application,...— to all who have duties to perform and evils to endure."44 What fathers did view as gender specific were not so much traits but sex roles, and herein... | |
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I confess myself decidedly of the opinion of those who would rather form the two sexes to a resemblance of character, than contrast them. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, patience, vigour, capacity, application, are not sexual qualities ; they belong... 