Brimstone Bargains in the Marriage Market: Or, The Traffic in Sex, Stories and Studies of the Exaggeration and Perversion of Sex and the Degradation of Woman Growing Out of Her Economic Dependence, an Appeal for Justice and Freedom

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Puritan Publishing Company, 1904 - 424 стор.

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Сторінка 359 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Сторінка 182 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still, with a voice of dolorous pitch, She sang the "Song of the Shirt.
Сторінка 58 - THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry — and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Сторінка 196 - Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
Сторінка 416 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Сторінка 198 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Сторінка 370 - How will you ever straighten up this shape; Touch it again with immortality ; Give back the upward looking and the light} Rebuild in it the music and the dream; Make right the immemorial infamies. Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes ? O masters, lords and rulers in all lands.
Сторінка 59 - ... ^We are the only animal species in which the female depends on the male for food, the only animal species in which the sex-relation is also an economic relation.
Сторінка 140 - And Onan knew that the seed should not be his ; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.
Сторінка 90 - Thus the whole education of women ought to be relative to men. To | please them, to be useful to them, to make themselves loved and honored by them, to educate them when young, to care for them when grown, to counsel them, to console them, and to make life agreeable and sweet to them— these are the duties of women at all times, and what should be taught them from their infancy.

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