Women - Social conditions - Early works to 1800
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Man superior to woman or, the Natural Right of the Men to Sovereign Authority over the Women, Asserted and Defended. Being an answer To that celebrated Treatise intitled, Woman not inferior to Man, &c. Interspersed with A Variety of Characters of different Kinds of Women, drawn from the Life. To which is prefixed Adedication to the Ladies. By a Gentleman.
GentlemanDate: 1744- E-books
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Discourses on several useful subjects . Viz. 1. A scriptural essay about the woman's seed. II. A short Essay about a more Effectual Preaching of God's Word by the Ministers with Benefit to the Hearers. III. Antichrist is the Serpent's Seed. IV. Some few Remarks on the Mass. V. Some Observations on the Council of Trent. VI. A Discourse about Prophets and Inspirations. Vii. A Short Catechism after the new French Mode. Viii. The author's confession of faith. By J. Gailhard, Gent.
Gailhard, J. (Jean).Date: 1708- E-books
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An essay on the Nair system of gallantry and inheritance shewing its superiority over marriage, as insuring an indubitable genuinnes ov [sic] birth, ..
Lawrence, James Henry, 1773-1840.Date: [1794?]- E-books
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An essay on the character, the manners, and the understanding of women, in different ages . Translated from the French of Mons. Thomas, by Mrs. Kindersley. With two original essays.
Thomas, M. (Antoine L�eonard), 1732-1785.Date: M.DCC.LXXXI. [1781]- E-books
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The horn exalted. Or, room for cuckolds. Being a treatise concerning the reason and original of the word cuckold, and why such are said to wear horns Very proper for these Times when Men are Butting, and Pushing, and Goring, and Horning one another. Also an appendix concerning women and jealousy.
Date: 1721