Can Woman Regenerate Society?J.W. Parker, 1844 - 183 sivua |
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Sivu 37 - There are different orders of greatness. Among these, the first rank is unquestionably due to moral greatness, or magnanimity; to that sublime energy, by which the soul, smitten with the love of virtue, binds itself indissolubly, for life and for death, to truth and duty...
Sivu 37 - ... smitten with the love of virtue, binds itself indissolubly, for life and for death, to truth and duty; espouses as its own the interests of human nature ; scorns all meanness and defies all peril; hears in its own conscience a voice louder than...
Sivu 120 - Nay, marriage will never be held sacred till women, by being brought up with men, are prepared to be their companions rather than their mistresses ; for the mean doublings of cunning will ever render them contemptible, whilst oppression renders them timid.
Sivu 158 - An instantaneous change, either from good to evil or from evil to good, if effected in a sovereign manner by a foreign power, and effected irrespectively of an economy of motives, would rather be the annihilation of one being and the creation of another, than the changing of the character of the...
Sivu 158 - Benevolence may indeed, if it pleases, so touch the springs of our motives as to bring about effectively a change of character, is by no means to be denied ; and indeed such an act of grace lies at the foundation of that economy of mercy under which we are now placed ; but then this exertion of spiritual influence always flows in the channel of moral means and inducements ; nor are we entitled to look for it under any other...