Essays on the pursuits of women. Also a paper on Female education, Issue 28 |
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Page 23 - With virtues equall'd by her wit alone. She made the cleverest people quite ashamed; And even the good with inward envy groan, Finding themselves so very much exceeded In their own way, by all the things that she did.
Page 9 - I had it not from Jove, nor the just gods Who rule below ; nor could I ever think A mortal's law of power or strength sufficient To abrogate th' unwritten law divine, Immutable, eternal, not like these Of yesterday, but made ere time began.
Page 18 - This is, however, we avow, a most alarming task. There is a sort of generalization about these objections which renders it by no means easy to express them in words. First, there is the name itself. One most able journal actually asserted that there was not, and could not be, such a thing as Social Science at all ; thereby reducing the Association very much to the character of schemers in the South Sea Bubble! Far larger is that portion of the public who recalcitrate at once at the thing and the...
Page 26 - ... the Romanist has understood that she has not fewer duties than others, but more extended and perhaps laborious ones. Not selfishness — gross to a proverb — but self-sacrifice more entire than belongs to the double life of marriage, is the true law of celibacy. Doubtless it is not an easy law. It will take some time to learn the lesson ; for it is far harder to preserve a loving spirit in solitude than under the fostering warmth of sweet household affections. If the single woman allow herself...
Page 19 - What matter for the number of the leaves, Supposing the tree lives and grows ? exact The literal unities of time and place, When 'tis the essence of passion to ignore Both time and place ? Absurd. Keep up the fire, And leave the generous flames to shape themselves.
Page 25 - But it is an absurdity, peculiar to the treatment of women, to go on assuming that all of them have home duties, and tacitly treating those who have none as if they were wrongly placed on God's earth, and had nothing whatever to do in it.
Page 37 - Men may do what must be done on a large scale ; but, the instant the work becomes individual, and personal, the instant it requires tact and feeling, from that instant it passes into the hands of women. It is essentially their province, in which may be exercised all their moral powers, and all their intellectual faculties. It will give them their full share in the vast operations the world is yet to see.
Page 59 - We now propose to pursue it further and investigate in particular the new phases which it has lately assumed. The questions involved may be stated very simply. It appears that there is a natural excess of four or five per cent of females over the males in our population. This, then, might be assumed to be the limits within which female celibacy was normal and inevitable. There is, however, an actual ratio of thirty per cent of women now in England who never marry, leaving one fourth of both sexes...
Page 71 - ... in life beside matrimony, and that by possessing them they are guaranteed against being driven into unloving marriages, and rendered more fitted for loving ones; while their single life, whether in maidenhood or widowhood, is made useful and happy. Before closing this part of the subject, we cannot but add a few words to express our amused surprise at the way in which the writers on this subject constantly concern themselves with the question of female celibacy, deplore it, abuse it, propose...
Page 189 - ... teacher (generally armed with a cane) and a class of small scholars deeply interested in the employment of that theological instrument. But, if such literary and religious instruction as this be the creditor side of the account, what is the debtor one ? It is only the sum.