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... moral conse- quences , women are subject by the prac- tice of midwifery by men . After de- scribing certain proceedings the Dr. says , " This may be commonly done without having recourse to the pain- ful and indelicate means which are ...
... moral conse- quences , women are subject by the prac- tice of midwifery by men . After de- scribing certain proceedings the Dr. says , " This may be commonly done without having recourse to the pain- ful and indelicate means which are ...
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... moral and personal danger to the patient , inseparable from the practice of man - midwifery . On this point many very important considera- tions are submitted in the course of these pages , but they all concentre in the one fact of ...
... moral and personal danger to the patient , inseparable from the practice of man - midwifery . On this point many very important considera- tions are submitted in the course of these pages , but they all concentre in the one fact of ...
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... morals , for women , after having submitted ( even in innocence ) to shameful violations , feel less shame from the idea of a repetition ; and the breach of modesty having been once made , they submit again , ay , and again , to ...
... morals , for women , after having submitted ( even in innocence ) to shameful violations , feel less shame from the idea of a repetition ; and the breach of modesty having been once made , they submit again , ay , and again , to ...
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... sexual decencies and pro- prieties ; but considering the subject to be a most serious one as affecting the morals of a Christian community , and very important in social consequences , the author trusts he 28 JUNONESIA ; OR ,
... sexual decencies and pro- prieties ; but considering the subject to be a most serious one as affecting the morals of a Christian community , and very important in social consequences , the author trusts he 28 JUNONESIA ; OR ,
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... morals if the public , whose cause and whose interest it is , would now deal " well with the midwives , " who as women , would doubtless recipro- cate in advantage to their sex ; fulfil- ling , peculiarly , the great command to " do ...
... morals if the public , whose cause and whose interest it is , would now deal " well with the midwives , " who as women , would doubtless recipro- cate in advantage to their sex ; fulfil- ling , peculiarly , the great command to " do ...
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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.