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... measure of comfort is this assurance calculated to afford to women , if it were received with confi- dence and faith , in merciful alleviation of the trying pains of childbirth ! " Remember with what mild And gracious temper he both ...
... measure of comfort is this assurance calculated to afford to women , if it were received with confi- dence and faith , in merciful alleviation of the trying pains of childbirth ! " Remember with what mild And gracious temper he both ...
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... measures to obtain some legislative protection with a view to their eventual formation into a corpo- rate character : under sanction of which might be regulated the teaching , exami- nation , and admission to practice , of women of ...
... measures to obtain some legislative protection with a view to their eventual formation into a corpo- rate character : under sanction of which might be regulated the teaching , exami- nation , and admission to practice , of women of ...
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... MEASURE FOR MEASURE . Yes , let husbands read , and reason will settle them in firm resolve no longer to be the facile slaves to a vile custom : " Law to ourselves ; our reason is our law , " - else will they be obnoxious to the biting ...
... MEASURE FOR MEASURE . Yes , let husbands read , and reason will settle them in firm resolve no longer to be the facile slaves to a vile custom : " Law to ourselves ; our reason is our law , " - else will they be obnoxious to the biting ...
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... MEASURE FOR MEASURE . What other conclusion can possibly come of such proceedings ? Did not that practised profligate , George the Fourth , testify of the effect of the sight of a " beautiful bosom , " in the anecdote no- ticed in the ...
... MEASURE FOR MEASURE . What other conclusion can possibly come of such proceedings ? Did not that practised profligate , George the Fourth , testify of the effect of the sight of a " beautiful bosom , " in the anecdote no- ticed in the ...
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... MEASURE FOR MEASURE . It is unquestionable that many women refer themselves to male examiners , and submit to such modes of examina- tion as have been described in quotation in this chapter , when they are not actu- ally with child at ...
... MEASURE FOR MEASURE . It is unquestionable that many women refer themselves to male examiners , and submit to such modes of examina- tion as have been described in quotation in this chapter , when they are not actu- ally with child at ...
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Page 10 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Page 174 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions ; but we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion.
Page 176 - But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Page 241 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men, Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 195 - Thy words, Creator, bounteous and benign, Giver of all things fair! but fairest this Of all thy gifts ! nor enviest. I now see Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, myself...
Page 22 - Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created, much less man, Or aught that might his happy state secure, Secure from outward force. Within himself The danger lies, yet lies within his power : Against his will he can receive no harm. But God left free the will, for what obeys Reason is free, and reason he made right...
Page 228 - Of goddesses, so blithe, so smooth, so gay, Yet empty of all good wherein consists Woman's domestic honour and chief praise ; Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
Page 22 - O woman, best are all things as the will Of God ordain'd them ; his creating hand Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created...
Page 230 - For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
Page 34 - And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.