Women, Their Condition and Influence in Society, Band 2C. Whittingham, 1803 |
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Seite 54 - Las ! je le veux ; et si , ne puis le faire, Que dis-je? veux ; c'est du tout le contraire : Faire le puis , et ne puis le vouloir ; Car vous avez la réduit mon vouloir, Que, plus tâchez ma liberté me rendre, Plus empêchez que ne la puisse avoir, En commandant ce que voulez défendre.
Seite 62 - Poictiers, which entitled me to have had legitimate children by you ; I have been your mistress, because I loved you ; but I will not suffer any arret to declare me so.
Seite 278 - Catherine, the first wife of Peter the Great, was received into the Greek Christian Church by a similar rite. New converts to that church are plunged three times, naked, in a river or in a large tub of cold water. Whatever is the age or sex of the convert this "indecent ceremony is never dispensed with. The effrontery of a pope (priests of the Greek Church are thus called) sets at defiance all the reasons which decency and modesty never cease to use against the absurdity and impudence of this shameful...
Seite 114 - I would place myself, with my second son, at the head of the whole nation, against him and against you.
Seite 66 - Nous fait voir une femme a ses fureurs livree, S'irritant par 1'effort que ce pas a coute, Son ame avec plus d'art a plus de cruauteV' She was even less famous for the number of her lovers, than the catastrophes of which she was the cause. •' Had ever nymph such reason to be glad 1 Two in a duel fell, and one ran mad.
Seite 2 - Their abhorrence of the Mahometans, and of the slavery to which women were subjected by them, chiefly contributed to inflame their souls, susceptible of every species of elevation and greatness. The notions of religion gave additional impulse to that heroic zeal with which they were inspired ; and this commixture of pious, amorous and chivalrous ideas produced so many celebrated women, so many exploits which history has handed down to posterity.
Seite 24 - At length in the sixteenth century, arose the famous question of the equality, or of the pre-eminence of the sexes. It cannot be doubted that it was secretly proposed by the women. Their continual desire of sway displayed itself then in its full extent.
Seite 5 - Let us turn to history. We shall see the celebrated Margaret of Anjou,* more courageous than her consort Henry VI, repair the losses occasioned by his imbecility, recall victory to his standards, twice regain her liberty, nor yield to the rebels, as well as to fate, till after she had fought twelve battles, on which her ge-.
Seite 27 - The hand which has regulated this vast universe, has assigned to fcach its part; each is born for a purpose which it ought to fulfil. If it deviates from that purpose, it infringes upon the general order; it is therefore punished, because it acts counter to the eternal laws, from whence arose that consistency and harmony which nature never suffers to be violated with impunity.
Seite 7 - If we examine the conduct of the women in every country, with impartiality, we shall be convinced that, without having been charged with any employment, with the conduct of any weighty transaction, they have nevertheless performed as important services as the men. On occasions of emergence especially they appear in a conspicuous light.