The Emigrants: 1793This epistolary novel about British expatriates in Pittsburgh & Kentucky expresses the radical ideas on love, marriage, & divorce associated with the feminist movement. The introduction presents evidence in support of Mary Wollstonecraft's authorship. |
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Page 22
... foul !! " But above all what makes her fo very interesting is the peculiar elegance of her manners . There is a blandifhment which accompanies every word fhe utters that goes directly to the heart ; and when the liftens to the ...
... foul !! " But above all what makes her fo very interesting is the peculiar elegance of her manners . There is a blandifhment which accompanies every word fhe utters that goes directly to the heart ; and when the liftens to the ...
Page 34
... foul in the agonies of fympathy beats high to the calls of nature , and the generous enthufiafim which kindles into rapture the coldeft hearts , when they efpoufe the cause of the oppreffed or unfortunate --- all tend to prove that ...
... foul in the agonies of fympathy beats high to the calls of nature , and the generous enthufiafim which kindles into rapture the coldeft hearts , when they efpoufe the cause of the oppreffed or unfortunate --- all tend to prove that ...
Page 54
... foul , which has given to man the rank he enjoys in the link of the creation ; and which they dared not to have done , but from the impunity power has giv- en them , and which makes it the more bafe and daftardly . To what a state of ...
... foul , which has given to man the rank he enjoys in the link of the creation ; and which they dared not to have done , but from the impunity power has giv- en them , and which makes it the more bafe and daftardly . To what a state of ...
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