 | Alfred Turner - 1916 - 253 oldal
..." I am ignorant of any one quality that is amicable in a man which is not equally so in a woman ; I do not except even modesty and gentleness of nature....detestable in both. There is indeed one infirmity which is generally allowed you, I mean that of cowardice ; yet there would seem to be something very capricious... | |
 | University of Maine at Orono - 1924
...sexes. I am ignorant of any one quality that is amiable in a man, which is not equally so in a woman. I do not except even modesty and gentleness of nature....or folly which is not equally detestable in both." As the years went on, the feeling that injustice was being done woman grew to conviction. The first... | |
 | Louise Barnett - 2006 - 238 oldal
..."I am ignorant of any one Quality that is amiable in a Man, which is not equally so in a Woman . . . nor do I know one Vice or Folly, which is not equally detestable in both" (PW 9:92-93)." Read critically, this statement does not endorse gender equality: it takes for granted... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 2007 - 372 oldal
...a woman, which is not equally so in a man. I do not except even modesty and gentleness of nature j nor do I know one vice or folly which is not equally detestable in both." Mrs. Jameson, in her delightful " Commonplace Book," illustrates this admirably by one or two test... | |
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I am ignorant of any one quality, that is amiable in a man, which is not equally so in a woman : I do not except even modesty and gentleness of nature. Nor do I know one vice or folly, which is not equally detestable in both. 
