Quotes about 18th century

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So weak are their [Men's] intellectuals, and so untuned are their organs to the voice of reason, that custom makes more — 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 a wretched circle this poor way of reasoning among the Men draws them insensibly into. Why is learning useless to u — 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
But where have [the Men] proved that we are not as capable of guarding ourselves from dangers, as they are of guarding u — 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
Let us treat Women as our equals, (says [the 'blubblering dotard' xD Cato]) and they will immediately want to become our — 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
Then Cato is forced at last to own that the subjection we are kept under by that arrogant sex, is the effect of violence — 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 shou'd not myself have thought [Cato] worth so much notice as I have here taken of him; but that the Men are weak enou — 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
If from immemorable time, the Men had been so little envious, and so very impartial, as to do justice to our talents, by — 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 Men who cannot deny us to be rational creatures, wou'd have us justify their irrational opinion and treatment of 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
It must appear to every one (...) a matter of the greatest surprise, to observe the universal prevalence of prejudice an — 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 Men, who have taken care to engross the affairs of Religion, as well as others, to their own management, are no more — 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 many absurd notions the Men are led into by custom: Tho' there is none more absurd, than that of the great differenc — 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 Men, biased by custom, prejudice, and interest, have presumed boldly to pronounce sentence in their own favour, beca — 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 appears that there is no other difference between Men and Us than what their tyrany has created, it will then appear — 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 begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second. — Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had — Terry Eagleton
Together they looked skyward. The moonbow was shattering--mere bits of color in the blackness, a sort of bridge between — Laura Frantz, Moonbow Night
As I walked over the loose fragments of stone, which lay scattered and surveyed the sublimity and grandeur of the ruins, — Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance
IT is enough for the Men to find a thing establish'd to make them believe it well grounded. In all countries we are seen — 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