Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education: With a View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune, Bind 1–2Samuel West, 1809 |
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Side viii
... gratifying , nor would just objects for praise have been . difficult to find . Even in her own limited sphere of observation , the author is acquainted with much excel- lence in the class of which she treats ; with women who ...
... gratifying , nor would just objects for praise have been . difficult to find . Even in her own limited sphere of observation , the author is acquainted with much excel- lence in the class of which she treats ; with women who ...
Side 14
... gratification of vanity or the indulgence of pleasure , is the degrading triumph of those fair victims to luxury , caprice , and despotism , whom the laws and the religion of the voluptuous prophet of Arabia exclude from light , and ...
... gratification of vanity or the indulgence of pleasure , is the degrading triumph of those fair victims to luxury , caprice , and despotism , whom the laws and the religion of the voluptuous prophet of Arabia exclude from light , and ...
Side 16
... gratifying itself when it would be thought to be serving God . Let not the bigot place her natural passions to the account of Christianity , or imagine she is pious when she is only pas- sionate . Let her bear in mind that a Christian ...
... gratifying itself when it would be thought to be serving God . Let not the bigot place her natural passions to the account of Christianity , or imagine she is pious when she is only pas- sionate . Let her bear in mind that a Christian ...
Side 22
... gratification or grossly to ridicule the taste which led the admirer to sacrifice pleasure to respect , and inclination to honour to sneer at that purity which made self - denial a proof of affection , and to call in question the sound ...
... gratification or grossly to ridicule the taste which led the admirer to sacrifice pleasure to respect , and inclination to honour to sneer at that purity which made self - denial a proof of affection , and to call in question the sound ...
Side 33
... gratification . Thus they are daily diminishing in the young and the timid those wholesome scruples , by which , when a tender conscience ceases to be intrench- ed , all the subsequent stages of ruin are gradually fa- cilitated . We ...
... gratification . Thus they are daily diminishing in the young and the timid those wholesome scruples , by which , when a tender conscience ceases to be intrench- ed , all the subsequent stages of ruin are gradually fa- cilitated . We ...
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