 If there be a word of truth in history, women have always been, and still are, over the greater part of the globe, humble companions, playthings, captives, menials, beasts of burden. Except in a few happy and highly civilised communities, they are strictly...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1781829Full view - About this book
 | 1880 - 506 pages
...history, women have been always, and still are, over the greater part of the globe, humble companions, playthings, captives, menials, beasts of burden. Except...respect to almost all the points in which they are the most deeply interested." — The second opinion, short yet suggestive, is that of Lord Brougham... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1860 - 424 pages
...history, women have always been, and still are, over the greater part of the globe, humble companions, playthings, captives, menials, beasts of burden. Except in a few happy and highly civilised communities, they are strictly in a state of personal slavery. Even in those countries where... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1084 pages
...history, women have always been, and still are, over the greater part of the globe, humble companions, playthings, captives, menials, beasts of burden. Except in a few happy and highly civilised communities, they are strictly in a state of personal slavery. Even in those countries where... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...history, women have always been, and still are, over the greater part of the globe, humble companions, playthings, captives, menials, beasts of burden. Except in a few happy and highly civilised communities, they are strictly in a state of personal slavery. Even in those countries where... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 468 pages
...highly eivilized eommunities, they are strietly in a state of personal slavery. Even in those eountries where they are best treated, the laws are generally unfavourable to them, with respeet to almost all the points in whieh they are most deeply interested. Mr. Mill is not legislating... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...history, women have always been, and still are, over the greater part of the globe, humble companions, playthings, captives, menials, beasts of burden. Except in a few happy and highly civilised communities, they are strictly in a state of personal slavery. Even in those countries where... | |
 | Charles Anthony (political writer.) - 1867 - 136 pages
...history, women have always been and still are, over the greater part of the globe, humble companions, playthings, captives, menials, beasts of burden. Except in a few happy and highly civilised communities, they are strictly in a state of personal slavery. Even in those countries where... | |
 | Charles Anthony - Equality - 1868 - 96 pages
...history, women have always been and still are, over the greater part of the globe, humble companions, playthings, captives, menials, beasts of burden. Except...personal slavery. Even in those countries where they are *. \ M '» 11 I I -; ( THE BOCIAL AMD POLITICAL best treated, the laws are generally unfavorable to... | |
 | William Anderson (D.D.) - Europe - 1870 - 392 pages
...that women must have votes, in order to protect their own interests. In the words of Lord Macaulay : " Even in those countries where they are best treated,...respect to almost all the points in which they are the most deeply interested." Lord Brougham said : " There must be a total reconstruction of the law,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 pages
...history, women have always been, and still are, over the greater part of the globe, humble companions, playthings, captives, menials, beasts of burden. Except in a few happy and highly civilised communities, they are strictly in a state of personal slavery. Even in those countries where... | |
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