Quotes about 18th century

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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ou — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
There will be great reason to suspect the Men of jealousy; and it cannot be rash to say, that their only reason for lock — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern of the pump. In that — Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey; th — Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
History is philosophy teaching by examples. — Thomas Jefferson
I think it evidently appears, that there is no science, office, or dignity, which Women have not an equal right to share — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
I wou'd therefore exhort all my sex (...) to betake themselves to the improvement of their minds (...) and (...) shew ou — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
It is quite idle (...) to insist so much on bodily strength, as a necessary qualification to military employments. And i — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
Bare strength entitles the Men to no superiority above us — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
What has greatly help'd to confirm the Men in the prejudiced notion of Women's natural weakness, is the common manner of — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
The manner Women are bred in, (...) they are admitted to no share of the exercises which wou'd qualify them to attack or — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
(...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to triumph; any more t — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state. Why may she — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
And the differences thence arising [between the constitution of men and women] are no ways sufficient to argue more natu — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of us to describe him a — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
We must be at least as well qualified as [Men] to teach the sciences; and if we are not seen in university chairs, it ca — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
(...) How many ladies have there been, and still are, who deserve place among the learned; and who are more capable of t — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
Where is there a Woman, who having generously trusted her liberty with a husband, does not immediately find the spaniel — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
Surely the Women were created (...) for some better end, than to labour in vain their whole life long. — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men
There are some however more condescending, and gracious enough to confess, that many Women have wit and conduct; but yet — Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man: Or, a Short and Modest Vindication of the Natural Right of the Fair-Sex to a Perfect Equality of Power, Dignity and Esteem with the Men