| English literature - 1812 - 708 pages
...M'Crie informs us, that the following is the first sentence and principal proposition of the work. ' To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion,...approved ordinance ; and finally, it is the subversion of all equity and justice.' Knox said, that his ' 1'irst Blasf had blown from him all his English friends.... | |
| 1814 - 596 pages
...the practice of entrusting the reins of goverhment in nations to females. The first sentence is— *-"To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire, above any realm, nation, t»r city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his revealed will... | |
| Congregational churches - 1814 - 614 pages
...the practice of entrusting the reins of government in nations to females. The first sentence is— ¿"To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire, above any realm, nution, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to (¿od, a thing most contrarions to his revealed... | |
| 1822 - 412 pages
...empire of women," he maintained, that it was altogether unlawful for women to reign. " To protaote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire,...repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most conlrarious to his revealed will, and approved ordinance; and, finally, it is the subversion of all... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 378 pages
...monstrous Regiment of Women." In this blast he taught that the rule of a woman was " repugnant to nature, a contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his...revealed will and approved ordinance, and, finally, the subversion of all equity and justice." In this fulmination he threatened two other blasts still... | |
| Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...monstrous Regiment of Women." In this blast he taught that the rule of a woman was " repugnant to nature, a contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his...revealed will and approved ordinance, and, finally, the subversion of all equity and justice." In this fulmination he threatened two other blasts still... | |
| Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...monstrous Regiment of Womm." In this blast he taught that the rule of a woman was " repugnant to nature, a contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to his...revealed will and approved ordinance, and, finally, the subversion of all equity and justice." In this fulmination he threatened two other blasts still... | |
| 1826 - 538 pages
...style, which was originally strong, and which in modern ears sounds coarse. " To promote (he said) a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire,...repugnant to nature, contumely to God, a thing most contrarions to his revealed will and approved ordinance, and finally, it is a subversion of all equity... | |
| John Lingard - Great Britain - 1826 - 462 pages
...sharp and vehement. In the first, he taught that the rule of a woman was « repugnant to nature , a contumely to God, a « thing most contrarious to his...revealed will and approved « ordinance, and finally the subversion of all equity and « justice; >> in the second blast he intended to teach, that governors... | |
| Amelia Gillespie Smyth - Classicists - 1834 - 474 pages
...extracting the uncourteous opening lines. "To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, or dominion over any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature, contumely to God, and finally, the subversion of good order, and of all equity and justice." The reasons assigned are... | |
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