 ... she cannot be agreeable. Gentleness ought to be the characteristic of the sex ; and there is nothing that can compensate for the want of this feminine attraction. Gentleness is, indeed, the talisman of woman. To interest the feelings is to her much...  Woman, in her social and domestic character - Seite 2von Elizabeth Sandford - 1831 - 172 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Daly Walker - 1838 - 284 Seiten
...woman. To interest the feelings is to her much easier than to convince the judgment; and the heart is far more accessible to her influence than the head....vantage ground, and gains the best position by surprise. While a display of skill and strength calls forth a counter array, gentleness at once disarms opposition,... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1839 - 338 Seiten
...woman. To interest the feelings is to her much easier than to convince the judgment ; and the heart is far more accessible to her influence than the head....prepossesses at first sight : it insinuates itself into the vantage-ground, and gains the best position by surprise. Whilst a display of skill and strength calls... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1843 - 280 Seiten
...of woman. To interest the feelings is to her much easier than to convince the judgment; the heart is far more accessible to her influence than the head....so much as by concession, and is never so likely to overcome as when she seems to yield. Gentleness prepossesses at first sight: it insinuates itself into... | |
 | American lady - 1843 - 204 Seiten
...woman. To interest the feelings is to her much easier than to convince the judgment ; the heart is far more accessible to her influence than the head....much as by concession ; and is never so likely to overcome, as when she seems to yield. Gentleness prepossesses at first sight; it insinuates itself... | |
 | American lady - 1849 - 154 Seiten
...woman. To interest the feelings is to her much easier than to convince the judgment ; the heart is far more accessible to her influence than the head....so much as by concession; and is never so likely to overcome, as when she seems to yield. Gentleness prepossesses at first sight ; it insinuates itself... | |
 | Hubbard Winslow - 1854 - 308 Seiten
...woman. To interest the feelings is to her much easier than to convince the judgment ; the heart is far more accessible to her influence than the head....so much as by concession, and is never so likely to overcome as when she seems to yield. Gentleness prepossesses at first sight : it insinuates itself... | |
 | Rachel Ablow - 2007 - 260 Seiten
...affections of the other sex as a feeling that woman looks to them for support and guidance."29 Woman "never gains so much as by concession, and is never so likely to succeed as when she seems to yield."30 In order to maintain her influence, in other words, the woman must renounce it. By contrast... | |
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