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 54
... human heart reduced , when it is obliged to have recoufe to all the cunning and ftratagem that it can devife , to obtain those gratifications not only affential to the existence of our fpecies ; but which flow from the effence of the human ...
... human heart reduced , when it is obliged to have recoufe to all the cunning and ftratagem that it can devife , to obtain those gratifications not only affential to the existence of our fpecies ; but which flow from the effence of the human ...
Page 126
... human virtues ; and a ftri & t regard to fuch , is the only criterion by which we are enabled to cftimate the purity and judgment of any human being . The inftability and very genuis of human na- ture has , to be fure , at all times ...
... human virtues ; and a ftri & t regard to fuch , is the only criterion by which we are enabled to cftimate the purity and judgment of any human being . The inftability and very genuis of human na- ture has , to be fure , at all times ...
Page 140
... human being so prepofterous as to think , a wo- man is a mere animal who it is necessary sometimes to immolate , in order to fupport the prefumptuous and fupercilious prerogatives of arrogant and in- human men ? Terror is ever the ...
... human being so prepofterous as to think , a wo- man is a mere animal who it is necessary sometimes to immolate , in order to fupport the prefumptuous and fupercilious prerogatives of arrogant and in- human men ? Terror is ever the ...
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