A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. Part second, Band 2Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839 |
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... moral , more educated , and more refined than the men , and yet have at present no influence whatever in society . What is the cause of this ? It can only be ascribed to the one great ruling passion which is so strong that it will admit ...
... moral , more educated , and more refined than the men , and yet have at present no influence whatever in society . What is the cause of this ? It can only be ascribed to the one great ruling passion which is so strong that it will admit ...
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... moral courage , and one also which is not common with the sex , physical courage . The independence and spirit of an American woman , if left a widow without resources , is im- mediately shewn ; she does not sit and lament , but applies ...
... moral courage , and one also which is not common with the sex , physical courage . The independence and spirit of an American woman , if left a widow without resources , is im- mediately shewn ; she does not sit and lament , but applies ...
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... moral state of any woman among the higher classes , either in America or England , who has fallen into the vice alluded to , nine times out of ten you will find that it has been brought about by religious excitement . Fanaticism and gin ...
... moral state of any woman among the higher classes , either in America or England , who has fallen into the vice alluded to , nine times out of ten you will find that it has been brought about by religious excitement . Fanaticism and gin ...
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... moral code , ( as I should imagine they were intended to be , ) which legislates upon broad principles , but selecting particular passages from them upon which to pin your faith . And it certainly appears to me to be reasonable to ...
... moral code , ( as I should imagine they were intended to be , ) which legislates upon broad principles , but selecting particular passages from them upon which to pin your faith . And it certainly appears to me to be reasonable to ...
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... moral , as they pretend that it is , why is it , that they have considered it necessary to form societies on such an extensive scale , for the prevention of a crime , from which they declare themselves ( com- paratively with us , and ...
... moral , as they pretend that it is , why is it , that they have considered it necessary to form societies on such an extensive scale , for the prevention of a crime , from which they declare themselves ( com- paratively with us , and ...
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