Woman Physiologically Considered, as to Mind, Morals, Marriage, Matrimonial Slavery, Infidelity and Divorce |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actions adultery affection appears backhead beauty become brain cause cavalier servente celibacy character charms child circumstances civil concubinage conduct consent consequence contract court courtezans crime disposition divine divorce domestic duties England equal error evil exist faculties father favour feel female fortune friendship girls glabella habeas corpus happiness heart honour human Hume husband inches indissoluble infidelity influence instinct jealousy jointure lady less live lover Madame de Stael male marriage married married couple matrimonial ment mind monogamy Montesquieu moral moreover mother nature never Ninon de l'Enclos Nova Scotia object observed offence old maids organs parents parties passion perhaps persons pleasure Plutarch polygamy possess principle progeny prove punishment racter reason relation render respect riage says sensibility sentiment separation society species spirit thing thought tion union vanity virtue vital system wife wives Wolstonecraft woman women young
Popular passages
Page 351 - O friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace...
Page 224 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 234 - ... where love cannot be, there can be left of wedlock nothing but the empty husk of an outside matrimony, as undelightful and unpleasing to God as any other kind of hypocrisy.
Page 383 - And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A Traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of an angel light.
Page 112 - A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other : any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.
Page 233 - Love though not wholly blind, as poets wrong him, yet having but one eye, as being born an archer aiming and that eye not the quickest in this dark region here below, which is not love's proper sphere, partly out of the simplicity and credulity which is native to him, often deceived, embraces and consorts him with these obvious and suborned striplings, as if they were his mother's own sons ; for so he thinks them, while they subtilly keep themselves most on his blind side.
Page 173 - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart ; 'Tis woman's whole existence...
Page 249 - ... sloth which is really unfit for conversation; nor is there that freedom of access granted or presumed, as may suffice to a perfect discerning till too late ; and where any indisposition is suspected, what more usual than the persuasion of friends, that acquaintance, as it increases, will amend all...
Page 230 - That indisposition, unfitness, or contrariety of mind, arising from a cause in nature unchangeable, hindering and ever likely to hinder the main benefits of conjugal society, which are solace and peace...
Page 228 - He who marries, intends as little to conspire his own ruine, as he that swears Allegiance: and as a whole people is in proportion to an ill Government, so is one man to an ill marriage.