This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline! George Eliot. The truth is, women are lost because they do not deliberate. Amelia E. Barr. anto tije Splits When God thought of Mother, he must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly, so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline! George Eliot. The truth is, women are lost because they do not deliberate. Amelia E. Barr. anto tije Splits When God thought of Mother, he must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly, so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power and beauty was the conception. Wa/rd Beeoher. A woman may always help her husband by what she knows, however little; by what she half knows, or mis-knows, she will only tease him. Buskin. Diffuse knowledge generally among women, and you will at once cure the conceit which knowledge occasions while it is rarp. TM. 0... Sydney brmth. The love of woman has in all ages given birth in man to passionate desires, poetic dreams, deferential attentions, persuasive forms of politeness. Alger. A lady who had not learned discretion by experience and came to an evil end. Holmes. In the elevated order of ideas, the life of man is glory; the life of woman is love. Balzac. Women have more strength in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power by their tears than we have by our arguments. Saville. The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them. "Her feet have touched the meadows and left the daisies rosy." Buskin. The masculine personal pronoun is singularly restricted in woman's judgment. Passion has curtailed her grammar amazingly. She can remember only one number (that is Greek). Browne. There is nothing sadder than to look at dressy old things, who have reached the frozen latitudes beyond fifty, and who persist in appearing in the airy costume of the tropics. Sheldon. A woman finds it a much easier task to do an evil than a virtuous deed. Blautus. I have always said it: Nature meant to ...
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Add this copy of Woman and the Wits: Epigrams on Woman, Love and Beauty to cart. $37.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1900 by A. Wessels Company.
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