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... feelings and benevolent motives . But they fell under the influence of bad teachers . Some flaming periodical or plausible and exciting lecturer kindled up a false fire in their too credulous and susceptible but well meaning bosoms ...
... feelings and benevolent motives . But they fell under the influence of bad teachers . Some flaming periodical or plausible and exciting lecturer kindled up a false fire in their too credulous and susceptible but well meaning bosoms ...
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... characteristic graces of their sex in lively exer- cise , so long as delicacy and modesty and the finer feelings of retiring and unostentatious benevolence have the ascendency over them , if they are well 26 APPROPRIATE SPHERE OF WOMAN .
... characteristic graces of their sex in lively exer- cise , so long as delicacy and modesty and the finer feelings of retiring and unostentatious benevolence have the ascendency over them , if they are well 26 APPROPRIATE SPHERE OF WOMAN .
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... feelings ; it has a tendency to do away with super- stition , and to reduce every thing to its real worth . It is thus that the sentiment for woman has under- gone a change . The romantic passion which once almost deified her is on the ...
... feelings ; it has a tendency to do away with super- stition , and to reduce every thing to its real worth . It is thus that the sentiment for woman has under- gone a change . The romantic passion which once almost deified her is on the ...
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... feeling . It is this which suggests the thou- sand nameless amenities which fix her empire in the heart , and render her so agreeable , and almost so necessary , that she imperceptibly rises in the do- mestic circle , and becomes at ...
... feeling . It is this which suggests the thou- sand nameless amenities which fix her empire in the heart , and render her so agreeable , and almost so necessary , that she imperceptibly rises in the do- mestic circle , and becomes at ...
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... feels her in- fluence , and receives from her , in great measure , its balance and its tone . She may be here a corrective of what is wrong , a moderator of what is unruly , a restraint on what is indecorous . Her presence may be a ...
... feels her in- fluence , and receives from her , in great measure , its balance and its tone . She may be here a corrective of what is wrong , a moderator of what is unruly , a restraint on what is indecorous . Her presence may be a ...
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