But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world : it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure : she embarks her whole soul... Littell's Living Age - Page 4571863Full view - About this book
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 lehte
...(1533-1603) British Queen of England. Quoted in The Tudors, ch. 7, Christo20 A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world:...sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of... | |
| Pamela Haag - 1999 - 258 lehte
...contemplated the "affections [as] so many moral objects to be accorded to justice," because the feme sole "embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection, and if shipwrecked ... it is bankruptcy of the heart." While conceding affection as a thing for circulation according... | |
| William Wells Brown - 2003 - 324 lehte
...were now husband and wife. A celebrated writer has justly said of woman, "A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world;...her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart."5 Mary had every reason to believe that she would never see George again; and although she confesses... | |
| William Barclay Napton - 2005 - 668 lehte
...these masculine women's rights women of Washington Irving's sketch of women: "A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world;...hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventures; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection, and if shipwrecked her case is... | |
| 1852 - 636 lehte
...for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow-men. But a woman's whole life bahbtory of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there...traffic of affection : and, if shipwrecked, her case is hopelas— for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To & man, the disappointment of love may occarion some... | |
| 1829 - 1252 lehte
...amiable capacity, or ever will be said again, is by a contemporary : — " A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world...for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies in adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case... | |
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