Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical and Historical, Volume 1Saunders and Otley, 1846 - 295 pages |
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... I will tell you what she is — she is a woman . Place Lady Macbeth in comparison with Richard III . , and you see at once the essential distinction between masculine and feminine ambition - though both in extreme 26 INTRODUCTION .
... I will tell you what she is — she is a woman . Place Lady Macbeth in comparison with Richard III . , and you see at once the essential distinction between masculine and feminine ambition - though both in extreme 26 INTRODUCTION .
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... feminine character , which renders them more terrible , because more credible and in- telligible — not like those monstrous caricatures we meet with in history- MEDON . In history ? -- this is new ! ALDA . Yes ! I repeat , in history ...
... feminine character , which renders them more terrible , because more credible and in- telligible — not like those monstrous caricatures we meet with in history- MEDON . In history ? -- this is new ! ALDA . Yes ! I repeat , in history ...
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... does not miti- gate my horror of political women in general , who are , I repeat it , both mischievous and absurd . If you could but hear the reasoning in these feminine coteries ! - —but you never talk poli- tics INTRODUCTION . 47.
... does not miti- gate my horror of political women in general , who are , I repeat it , both mischievous and absurd . If you could but hear the reasoning in these feminine coteries ! - —but you never talk poli- tics INTRODUCTION . 47.
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Moral, Poetical and Historical Anna Jameson. feminine coteries ! - —but you never talk poli- tics . ALDA . ment . Indeed I ... feminine . ALDA . But most mischievous . For hence it is that we make such blind partisans , such violent party ...
Moral, Poetical and Historical Anna Jameson. feminine coteries ! - —but you never talk poli- tics . ALDA . ment . Indeed I ... feminine . ALDA . But most mischievous . For hence it is that we make such blind partisans , such violent party ...
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... feminine spite and rivalry , in the mean spirit of competition , the petty jealousy of superior charms , the mutual slander and mistrust , the transient leagues of folly or selfishness miscalled friend- ship - the result of an education ...
... feminine spite and rivalry , in the mean spirit of competition , the petty jealousy of superior charms , the mutual slander and mistrust , the transient leagues of folly or selfishness miscalled friend- ship - the result of an education ...
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