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Page xxxvii
... girls , half dead with hunger , who had persisted in not having recourse to this horrible resource . The asylums of which I speak might find a model in the béguinages of Flanders , an old establishment , but unfortunately little known ...
... girls , half dead with hunger , who had persisted in not having recourse to this horrible resource . The asylums of which I speak might find a model in the béguinages of Flanders , an old establishment , but unfortunately little known ...
Page xliii
... girls , the ma- * I shall not say a word in this volume , on the strange question that has been raised , whether they who have the daughters should have the sons also , whether they should add to their monstrous monopoly , whether ...
... girls , the ma- * I shall not say a word in this volume , on the strange question that has been raised , whether they who have the daughters should have the sons also , whether they should add to their monstrous monopoly , whether ...
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... girl , as his Philothea would say : he takes them all , and takes too many ; there are some colours among them badly matched , and have a strange effect . It is the taste of that age , we must confess ; the Savoyard taste in particular ...
... girl , as his Philothea would say : he takes them all , and takes too many ; there are some colours among them badly matched , and have a strange effect . It is the taste of that age , we must confess ; the Savoyard taste in particular ...
Page 60
... girls do not know what they want , if they wish to submit them- selves to the superiority of the friars , who , indeed , are excellent servants of God ; but it always goes hard for girls to be governed by the orders , who are accustomed ...
... girls do not know what they want , if they wish to submit them- selves to the superiority of the friars , who , indeed , are excellent servants of God ; but it always goes hard for girls to be governed by the orders , who are accustomed ...
Page 70
... girls were saints , we must say ; whether we like their spirit of resistance or not , they were saints ; and , moreover , under the form of that age , real defenders of liberty . † Read , however , the immortal 5th letter of Nicole ...
... girls were saints , we must say ; whether we like their spirit of resistance or not , they were saints ; and , moreover , under the form of that age , real defenders of liberty . † Read , however , the immortal 5th letter of Nicole ...
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