Woman, in Her Social and Domestic CharacterOtis, Broaders, 1842 - 175 páginas |
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Página 81 - But thy more serious eye a mild reproof Darts, O beloved Woman ! nor such thoughts Dim and unhallow'd dost thou not reject, And biddest me walk humbly with my God.
Página 15 - In proportion as men are themselves superior, they are accessible to this appeal. On the contrary, they never feel interested in one who seems disposed rather to offer than to ask assistance. There is, indeed, something unfeminine in independence. It is contrary to nature, and therefore it offends. We do not like to see a woman affecting tremors, hut still less do we like to see her acting the amazon.
Página 167 - No : ehe must consider all these little arts of pleasing chiefly valuable on his account, — as means of perpetuating her attractions and giving permanence to his affection. She must remember that her duty consists not so much in great and solitary acts, in...
Página 111 - Romance is, indeed, the charm of female character. Without it no woman can be interesting; and though its excess is a weakness, and one which receives but little indulgence, there is nothing truly generous or disinterested, which does not imply its existence. It is that poetry of sentiment which imparts to character or incident something of the beautiful or the sublime ; which elevates us to a higher sphere ; which gives an...
Página 29 - But even when women are adepts in orthography, they are not always so in syntax and punctuation ; though they may affect to be linguists, it by no means follows that they are good English scholars. It is very important, not only that the mind should be well informed, but that there should be a taste for knowledge ; which should be appreciated for its own sake, not merely as a distinction. The superiority of really cultivated women is, in every thing, very apparent.
Página 146 - Indian tinting, accomplish a few romances on the guitar, a few waltzes on the piano-forte ; she talks bad French and worse Italian ; but she has no taste, no love of knowledge, no real desire for improvement; her mind is a mere blank; she might as well have been employed (like her grandmothers of old) in copying receipts in halftext, or working Adam and Eve upon a sampler. It is the same in every thing. Lessons are considered the sum of education. And though it is certainly very right to have a...
Página 173 - ... but from delusions and errors of every kind. A woman who lives much at home hears the rumors merely of conflicts which perplex and agitate all who are involved in them. Opinions are presented to her, not dressed up with all the witchery of eloquence, and fresh from the mouth of their propounder, tut divested of extrinsic attractions, and in their true garb.
Página 107 - And it is in this way that some, apparently conscientious, persons not unfrequently mistake. They have in religion, as in other subjects, just that ready knowledge which is always producible, and which leads them to imagine themselves proficients in theology, and to obtain credit for being so, when, in fact, they are mere babes in spiritual experience. It is a refreshment when we do meet with those, — and many such there doubtless are, — who are superior to all these faults.
Página 7 - Where want of congeniality impairs domestic comfort, the fault is generally chargeable on the female side ; for it is for woman, not for man, to make the sacrifice, especially in indifferent matters. She must, in a certain degree, be plastic herself if she would mould others.
Página 116 - It is then that the world seems so fair, and our fellowcreatures so kind, that we charge with spleen any who would prepare us for disappointment, and accuse those of misanthropy who would warn our too confiding hearts. And though in maturer life we may smile at the romance of youth, and lament perhaps its aberrations, yet must we often regret the depth of our young emotions, the disinterestedness of our young affections, and that enthusiasm of purpose which, alas ! we soon grow too wise to cherish.