 With refpect to matrimony, it is the privilege of the male, as fuperior and protector, to make a choice : the female preferred has no privilege but barely to confent or to refufe. Nature fits them for thefe different parts : the male is bold, the female...  Sketches of the History of Man - Sivu 4tekijä(t) Lord Henry Home Kames - 1778Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1774 - 540 sivua
...confent or to refufe. Nature fits them for thefe different parts : the male is bold, the female bafhful. Hence among all nations it is the practice for men...immediately connected with his country : his wife, his children, his fervants, are immediately connected with him, and with their country through him only.... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1778 - 506 sivua
...confent or to refufe. Nature fits them for thefe different parts : the male is bold, the female bafhful. Hence among all" nations it is the practice for men to . court, and for women to be courted 1 which holds alfo among many other animals, probably among all that pair. Aiiother diftinction is... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1779 - 572 sivua
...confent or to refufe. Nature fits them for thefe different parts : the male is bold, the female bafhful. Hence among all nations it is the practice for men...other animals, probably among all that pair. Another diftin&ion is equally vifible : The mafter of a family is immediately connected with his country :... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 422 sivua
...difpofition^of the fexes, or only the'eifeitof affiliations inevitably formed, may be queltiontd ; but among all nations it is the practice for men to court, and for women to be courted : and were the molt beautiful woman ou earth to invert this practice, ihe would forfeit the eiteem,... | |
 | Ebenezer Sibly - 1802 - 420 sivua
...difpofitions of the iexes, or only the effect of afibeiations inevitably formed, cd, may be quefiioncd ; but among all nations it is the practice for men to court, and for women to be courted : and, were the tnoft beautiful woman on earth to invert this practice, flic would forfeit the efteem,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1802 - 220 sivua
...confent or to refufe. Nature fits them for their different parts : the male is bold, the female bafhful. Hence, among all nations, it is the practice for men to court, and f«,womeri to be courted : which holds alfo among many othW animals, probably among all that pair.... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1807 - 534 sivua
...thefe different parts: the male is bold, the female bamful. Hence among all nations it is the praclice for men to court, and for women to be courted : which...other animals, probably among all that pair. Another diftin&ion is equally vifible: The mafter of a family is immediately connected with his country ; his... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 sivua
...difpofitions of the fexes, or only the effeft of affociations inevitably fotmed, may be questioned ; but among all nations it is the practice for men to court, and for wonfen to be courted : and were the moll beautiful woman on earth to invert this practice, Hie would... | |
 | 1823 - 856 sivua
...dispositions of the sexes, or only the effect of associations inevitably formed, may be questioned ; but among all nations it is the practice for men to court, and for women to be courted : and were the most beautiful woman on earth to- invert this practice, she- would forfeit the esteem,... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 440 sivua
...arise out of this mental difference in the sexes, are noticed by Kaimes, when he says, " The master of a family is immediately connected with his country : his wife, his children, his servants, are immediately connected with him, and with their country through him only.... | |
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