 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Civilization - 1813 - 536 pages
...deshonneur." Rousseau, En'ile, liv. $.p. 96. — [/n English thus : •' The empire of the woman is an empire " of softness, of address, of complacency ;...her commands are " caresses, her menaces are tears. She ought to reign in the " family like a minister in the state, by making that which is *' her inclination... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 750 pages
...; while such labours as have in view the improvement of the female world, reach to the very nature and condition of the soil itself, and render it more...justice, nature, and truth. He has favoured me with an abridgment of his plan, which I read at the last meeting of our society, till my neighbour Blunt, and... | |
 | Daniel Wise - Husband and wife - 1856 - 174 pages
...fault-finding, scolding, fretful wives. ROUSSEAU has elegantly said : — " The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears ;" and a living writer (Rev. Dr. Barnes) says, — A sweet temper, daily maintained, is more precious... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...supremacy, and sway, Where they are bound to serve, love, and obey. Shafccsperc. The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. — Rouss&au. SKoramt'si .fatllj. Thou hast call'd me thy angel in moments of bliss — Still thy angel... | |
 | Women - 1865 - 380 pages
...Eloquence. A maiden hath no tongue — but thought. Shakespeare. Her Empire. The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. Rousseau. Of England. May my song soften, as thy daughters, I Britannia, hail ! for beauty is their... | |
 | Henry Southgate - Fore-edge painting - 1865 - 398 pages
...Eloquence. A maiden hath no tongue — but thought. Shakespeare. Her Empire. The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. Rousseau. Of England. May my song soften, as thy daughters, I Britannia, hail ! for beauty is their... | |
 | John Turner - 1866 - 396 pages
...abroad, and had sought to create for him a recompense at heme. RorssEAU stiys: "The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency —...her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears." I859. THE NEW JERSEY FARMER. ft ' CONDUCTED BY MRS. SARAH S. SOCWELL. THE POETRY OP JUNE. EY W. II.... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Women - 1882 - 448 pages
...when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty. — Goldsmith. 146 The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears. — Rousseau. M7 Wedlock is like wine, not properly judged of until the second glass. — Douglas Jerrold.... | |
 | Linda K. Kerber - Social Science - 2017 - 356 pages
...General Will. They are invisible. As Rousseau explained in Emile, they lived in another world. Theirs is "the empire of softness, of address, of complacency; her commands are caresses; her menaces are tears."14 This is not hyperbole; women have moral and physical relationships to men, but not political... | |
 | Lucy Maddox - History - 1999 - 458 pages
...the community. But even in Condorcet's formulation, women are not explicitly part of the community. empire of softness, of address, of complacency; her commands are caresses; her menaces are tears."14 This is not hyperbole; women have moral and physical relationships to men, but not political... | |
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Rousseau on that head, who thinks that " the empire of woman is the empire of softness, of address, of complacency : her commands are caresses ; .her menaces are tears. 