The Advance of Woman from the Earliest Times to the PresentJ.B. Lippincott, 1912 - 333 pages |
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... facts it contains are known to all reading people , but they are known as isolated facts and as such have no significance . We all know something of the sub- jection of woman in Oriental countries , but we do not realise that woman in ...
... facts it contains are known to all reading people , but they are known as isolated facts and as such have no significance . We all know something of the sub- jection of woman in Oriental countries , but we do not realise that woman in ...
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... facts that are living and pregnant are those which bring a lesson , the only good of the past is to enable us to better guide the present ; and past history , sociological , political and legal , philosophically understood ought to be ...
... facts that are living and pregnant are those which bring a lesson , the only good of the past is to enable us to better guide the present ; and past history , sociological , political and legal , philosophically understood ought to be ...
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... facts of nature as he saw them around him , and build his theories on them and in conformity with them . And as , in this specific case , the males seemed to be especially fa- voured by nature , not only in the matter of size , but of ...
... facts of nature as he saw them around him , and build his theories on them and in conformity with them . And as , in this specific case , the males seemed to be especially fa- voured by nature , not only in the matter of size , but of ...
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... facts he is himself bringing to light . " In view of the fact , however , that systematic , scientific research practically began only with the nineteenth century , it cannot be wondered at , that the belief in the supremacy of man ...
... facts he is himself bringing to light . " In view of the fact , however , that systematic , scientific research practically began only with the nineteenth century , it cannot be wondered at , that the belief in the supremacy of man ...
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... fact , that the one was the continuation of the other , namely , that the fundamental biological sex differences hold good throughout all species of living beings , and it is this link that Mr. Ward has supplied . It is quite in keeping ...
... fact , that the one was the continuation of the other , namely , that the fundamental biological sex differences hold good throughout all species of living beings , and it is this link that Mr. Ward has supplied . It is quite in keeping ...
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The Advance of Woman: From the Earliest Times, to the Present (Classic Reprint) Jane Johnstone Christie No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 207 - This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
Page 316 - And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled ? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts ? Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself : handle me, and see ; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Page 207 - And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
Page 326 - For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea ; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass ; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Page 22 - Noiselessly as the springtime Her crown of verdure weaves, And all the trees on all the hills Open their thousand leaves...
Page 310 - And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread. 17 And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread ? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened ? 18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
Page 215 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 323 - Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 307 - And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things ; but one thing is needful. And Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Page 102 - And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword. But the women and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself, and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies which the Lord thy God hath given thee.