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It is thus the artless illuminations of antique missals, in preserving the rude outlines of the dark originals they were meant, to honour, perpetuate, also, in vivid tints, that expression of feebleness and suffering, which is the inseparable characteristic of suspicious and unaccommodated ignorance in all ages 1. THE chronicles of six thousand years, the records of the known world, lie open for the benefit and the wonder of mankind, preserving, in pages indited by the lights of the irrespective limes, monuments of the ignorance, the timidity, and the credulity, of successive generations.įrom the earliest aggregations of society, man, in his shallow pride, has laboured to perpetuate the memory of his own imperfection, the story of his selfishness and his errors and the annals which he has bequeathed from age to age, for the benefit of posterity, are but evidences of the long and painful struggles, by which the human species, on isolated points, and for periods brief and remote, have succeeded in partially escaping from physical evil, and from moral darkness.
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"Cc sexe, que nous bornons å des emplois obscurs et domestiques, ne serait-il pas destine å des fonctions plus nobles et plus relevées? N'a-t-il pas donn6 des exemples de courage, de sagesse, de progres dans toutes les vertus et dans tous les arts? Peul-être que ses qualites se ressentent de sa faiblesse, et sont interieures aux nôtres: s'ensuit-il qu'elles doivent etre inutiles à la patrie ? Non, la nature ne dispense aucun talent pour Ie rendre stérile, et le grand art du 16gislateur est de remettre en jeu tous les ressorts qu'elle fournit, et que nous laissons en repos." Plato-de Relmblica.-As cited by the Abbé Barthilemy. GALIGNANJ AND Co.Īs the old low-phrase runs, Baron et Femme- the maliter and his woman." BLACKSTONE. PRINTED BY CRAPELET, 9, RUE DE VAUGIRARD.Īs the old law-phrase runs, Baronet Feme-the master and his woman,"-BucKs'roNK. GALIGNANI AND (I', ItLE VIV1 £ >XE, N 18. TheĮstimated recognition rate for this document is 100%. The text of this document has been generated automatically by an optical character recognition (OCR) program. The text displayed may contain some errors. Provenance : Bibliothèque nationale de France Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Littérature et art, Y2-75956 Auteur du texteĭescription : Contient une table des matières Title : Woman and her master / by Lady MorganĪuthor : Morgan, Lady Sydney (1783-1859). Woman and her master / by Lady Morgan | Gallica
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