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الصفحة 5 - ... of the equality of the sexes, by dressing in a manner to fit you for the duties of a noble and useful life. And also TO MY PROFESSIONAL SISTERS, Of whatever School or Pathy, and all women who are laboring for the public good in any capacity. And lastly, TO THAT GREAT SISTERHOOD Which embraces women with their thousand unwritten trials and sorrows, that God has not given to men the power to comprehend, I dedicate this work, in hope that it will contribute to right your wrongs, lighten your burdens...
الصفحة 104 - One morning he invited a few companions with him, as he was about to take his departure from Paris to join his regiment. In the conviviality of the hour he drank too much wine. He did not become intoxicated ; he was not in any respect a dissipated man. His character was lofty and noble. But in that joyous hour he drank a glass too much. He lost the balance of both body and mind.
الصفحة 65 - If men were really what they profess to be they would not compel women to dress so that the facilities for vice would always be so easy.
الصفحة 4 - TO MY PARENTS; And also TO THE PRACTICAL DRESS REFORMERS, The truest friends of humanity, who have done more for the universal elevation of woman in the past dozen years, than all others combined. You, who have lived the precepts and principles that others have only talked — who have been so consistent in your ideas of the equality of the sexes, by dressing in a manner to fit you for the duties of a noble and useful life.
الصفحة 22 - ... selfish interest, they may be the rewards for favors to come. Fondness, displaying a silly extravagance or unseemly demonstrativeness, does not prove true love ; it may be only a foolish, doting indulgence. The old maid is also fond of her dog and the little girl of her doll. Some men love their wives as children love dolls, and, as a natural result, treat them just as dolls are treated. They dress them in all the finery they are able to procure, pet and exhibit them until they become old, and...
الصفحة 97 - No foot of land do I possess, No cottage in this wilderness, A poor wayfaring man, I lodge awhile in tents below ; Or gladly wander to and fro, Till I my Canaan gain.
الصفحة 62 - We've possessed nothing." The eyes: "We've seen nothing." The legs: "We've been nowhere." And the Angel of Death had to contest every inch of the way, from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet.
الصفحة 46 - ... should I not see what was to be seen ? and, confident that my good friend could have no sinister design, I gave him an affirmative reply. Upon inquiring of one of the trustees, or masters of the fair, " if the girls had come," we were informed they would be there at twelve o'clock. At twelve o'clock we went, as directed, to a part of the ground higher than the rest of the field, where we found from sixty to a hundred young women, well dressed, with good looks and good manners, and presenting...
الصفحة 67 - ... seduced by beauty to confer favors and influence suffrages? Socrates calls beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, the privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a mute eloquence; Diogenes, the best letter of recommendation; Carneades, a queen without soldiers; Theocritus, a serpent covered with flowers; Bion, a good that does not belong to the possessor, because it is impossible to give ourselves beauty or to preserve it. Madame du Barry expressed the philosophy of Carneades in more laconic language when...
الصفحة 47 - Circassian slave-market, where the richest purchaser could make his selection. They were in no sense of the term on sale ; nor did they abandon their own right of choice ; but that which is done constantly in more refined society, under various covers and pretences, — at theatres, balls, and public exhibitions ; I will say nothing about churches, — was done by these humble and unpretending people in this straightforward manner.