British Freewomen: Their Historical Privilege

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S. Sonnenschein & Company, 1894 - 196 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 176 - And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
Σελίδα 170 - There are four classes of Idols which beset men's minds. To these for distinction's sake I have assigned names, — calling the first class Idols of the Tribe; the second, Idols of the Cave; the third, Idols of the Market-place; the fourth, Idols of the Theatre.
Σελίδα 136 - We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion, or any individual for another individual, what is and what is not their "proper sphere.
Σελίδα 130 - One thing is pretty clear, that all those individuals whose interests are indisputably included in those of other individuals may be struck off without inconvenience. In this light may be viewed all children, up to a certain age, whose interests are involved in those of their parents. In this light, also, women may be regarded, the interest of almost all of whom is involved either in that of their fathers or in that of their husbands.
Σελίδα 116 - I have been bullied by an usurper ; I have been neglected by a court ; but I will not be dictated to by a subject : your man shan't stand. " ANNE Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery.
Σελίδα 170 - Idols of the Market-place are the most troublesome of all, idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words, but it is also true that words react on the understanding, and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive.
Σελίδα 78 - And where a woman 2cocerte df baron follows any craft within the said city by herself apart, with which the husband in no way intermeddles, such woman shall be bound as a single woman as to all that concerns her said craft. And if the husband and wife are impleaded, in such case, the wife shall plead as a single woman...
Σελίδα 158 - Consider, sir, dispassionately, these observations — for a glimpse of this truth seemed to open before you when you observed, " that to see one half of the human race excluded by the other from all participation of government, was a political phenomenon that, according to abstract principles, it was impossible to explain.
Σελίδα 106 - Majesty's most noble progenitors, we the knights, citizens and burgesses of the House of Commons assembled in parliament and in the name of the whole Commons of the realm of England, with uniform consent for ourselves and our posterity, do expressly protest...

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