The Virgin Unmasked, Or, Female Dialogues, Betwixt an Elderly Maiden Lady, and Her Niece, on Several Diverting Discourses on Love, Marriage, Memoirs and Morals, Etc. of All TimesG. Strahan, 1724 - 200 pages |
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Page 21 - Sometimes when you thought you was not observ'd, how passionately would you throw yourselves backward, and clapping your Legs alternatively over one another, squeeze your Thighs together with all the Strength you had, and in a Quarter of an Hour repeat the same to all the Chairs in the Room? Many times, Antonia, have I seen you sit in that Careless Manner, and half shutting your Eyes, whilst your Head would slowly drop down to one Shoulder, bite on your Lip with so Craving and so Begging a Look,...
Page 6 - My Defign through the whole, is to let young Ladies know whatever is dreadful in Marriage, and this could not be done, but by introducing one that was an- Enemy to it. Therefore, tho* Lucinda fpeaks altogether againft Matrimony, don't think that I do fo too.
Page 105 - I cannot but admire the wisdom of Nature in denying to men and women that foresight when they are young, which they acquire at a greater age ; for, without that, I believe the world could not subsist above fourscore years, and a new creation of men would be wanted once every hundred years at least ; since the inconveniences of marriage are experimentally known to overbalance the conveniences. This young folks will not believe, and thus the world is peopled.
Page 168 - Can any one love liberty, and not abhor that harden'd monster of ambition? To whom the greatest losses and calamities of his friends, are not unwelcome, if they can but advance his glory. That arbitrary fiend, that knowing himself to be the cause of war and famine, beholds the miseries of his own people with less concern than you can see a play; the bane of mankind, that can draw whole schemes of the destruction and...
Page 109 - Agonies, as have often proved Fatal : Are not thefe Signs , that the Venom flies up to the Head > Does it not come up to Demonftration, that the Sting of Man comes up to that of the Tarantula ? And that the Symptoms of the firft, are more Dreadful, Lafting, and Pernicious, than they are of the latter?
Page 66 - All is not gold that glisters; many things are done daily for which People are extoll'd to the Skies that at the same time, tho' the Actions are Good, would be blamed as highly, if the Principle from which they acted, and the Motive that first edg'd them on, were thoroughly known.
Page 149 - French king is a refined chemist, who with a small pill and a few drops that are hardly felt in going down and yet of a wonderful operation in the body cures the most dangerous as well as the most inveterate distempers. What strange alterations has he made in all the courts of Europe, with only two medicines, his Aurum Potabile and his tincture of opium.
Page 120 - Politician that would pretend to fore- fee what mall happen, ought to be acquainted with other Countries, as well as he is with his own, to know the great Cities, their Commerce, the Sea-ports, their Shipping, the Fortifications, Artillery, Stores, and Ammunition -, all the Towns of Note, the Number of Villages, and People they contain ; the Soil, the Climate, the Extent and Product of every Province -, fome of thefe Things are very difficult to be learn'd. The...
Page 61 - ... herself and the sheet, she made a very vigorous defence to save her honour, for though she could not hinder him from often kissing, not only her face, but several other parts of her body, as by her struggling they came to be bare; yet by her nimbleness in shifting her posture, and employing his hands so well with her own, they could never attain to the liberty they chiefly strove for. She neither made great noise, bit or scratched, but appeared to be resolute, and her resistance was made with...