 | John Stewart - Ethics - 1812 - 514 pages
...women than human creatures, have been more -anxious to make them alluring mistresses, than rational wives ; and the understanding of the sex has been...and by their abilities and virtues exact respect— —If then it can be fairly deduced from the present conduct of the sex, from the prevalent fondness... | |
 | John Stewart - 1812 - 520 pages
...women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses, thap rational wives ; and the understanding of the sex has been...ambition, and by their abilities and virtues exact respect If then it can be fairly deduced from the present conduct of the sex, from the prevalent fondness for... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - Women - 1833 - 234 pages
...as women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than rational wives; and the understanding of the sex has been so...and by their abilities and virtues exact respect, r In a treatise, therefore, on female rights and manners, the works which have been particularly written... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers ; h civilised women of the present century, with a few exceptions, are only anxious to inspire love, when... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - Authors, English - 1891 - 314 pages
...have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers ; and the understanding of the sex has been so bubbled...and by their abilities and virtues exact respect. In a treatise, therefore, on female rights and manners, the works which have been particularly written... | |
 | Albert Benedict Wolfe - Social problems - 1916 - 826 pages
...women than as human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than rational wives ; and the understanding of the sex has been...and by their abilities and virtues exact respect. 1 This seems to be the modern "indirect-influence" argument against the franchise for women put into... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - Philology, Modern - 1924 - 1016 pages
...have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers; and the understanding of the sex has been so bubbled by this specious homage, that the civilised women of the present century, with a few exceptions, are only anxious to inspire love, when... | |
 | Shirley Morahan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1981 - 334 pages
...have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers; and the understanding of the sex has been so bubbled...and by their abilities and virtues exact respect. In a treatise, therefore, on female rights and manners, the works which have been particularly written... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 412 pages
...have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers; and the understanding of the sex has been so bubbled...and by their abilities and virtues exact respect. (VRW, p. 79) It may be said that this bad nature was produced by a false education just as poetry produced... | |
 | Karen Lawrence - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 296 pages
...expanded heart can give.—God bless you! Adieu" ("Letters to Imlay," 420). of Woman, many women seem "only anxious to inspire love, when they ought to...and by their abilities and virtues exact respect" (7). This terminology makes clear that aesthetic responsiveness is a moral category. Wollstonecraft's... | |
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I attribute to a false system of education, gathered from the books written on this subject by men who, considering females rather as women than human creatures, have been more anxious to make them alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational... 
