An essay on the character, the manners, and the understanding of women ... / Translated ... by Mrs. Kindersley. With two original essays.

  • Antoine Léonard Thomas
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1781
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Credit: An essay on the character, the manners, and the understanding of women ... / Translated ... by Mrs. Kindersley. With two original essays. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bcfides, fubje^l to others which are pe- culiar to their fex. In giving life to their infants, they hazard the lofs of their own; every change which they experience, impairs their health: cruel diforders defpoil their beauty, or threaten them with death ; or at befl:, the flower but certain hand of Time, by dally flealing from them apart of themfelves, dertroys their charms. They can then only expedl proteftion from the humiliating fenti- ment of compalTion, or the feeble bond of gratitude. r t> Society ftill adds to the evils which Nature has provided for them.—More than half the globe is covered with fa- vages, amongft all which people the wo- men are extremely miferable.—Man, in his favage ftate, is at the fame time fierce and indolent j adtive only from neceflity, but carried by an Invincible inclination to rcpole, he knows fcarcely any thing of love but appetite; and, having
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