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ture _Maearia . They , Euri are pides deini follows -goddesses his , conception yet how are of their Heroic white _, not robes human stained na- !
Iphigenia says" More than a thousand women is one man
Worthy to see the light of day ;" a sentiment which has prevailed ever since .
" Silence and a chaste reserve Is woman ' genuine praise , and to remain Q , uiet within the house , "
proceeds Macaria , and still farther' Of prosperous future could I form cheerful ?
To A One poor take forsaken in marriage hope virg ? in Who who would would dei wish gn for sons
From one so wretched ? Better then to die Than bear such undeserved miseries . "
possible these Here is are the to favorable woman popular if idea she ecimen may which s ; not they curses be show a wife soci the ety and practical to bear -day children — tendencies -no vocation : and of sp
the very best of Euripides . The heroic portions are like Miriam ' s song In , speaking and have of nothing Aristop to hanes do wi I th do us not and speak our experi ignorantl ences y . . I know
Eow much students consider themselves indebted to him for details of manners and customs , for political and social hints , for a sort of
Butch But school if a nation of pen ' s painting life be so . very vile , if crimes were among its
amusements , why permit the record to taint the mind and inflame the of imag those ination in no of way youth prepared ? Why put to use it with it ? our Would own hands you have into table the wit de and sks
humor ? Sit down with Douglas Jerrold , or to the genial spread fare by our of the Boston Ath autocrat enian . , One and you of the will most have vul no relish assaults left for ever the coarse made gar
upon the movement to elevate woman in this country was made in a resp tations ectable from quarterl Aristop y hanes by a and Greek conclude scholar d . by It cop was ious sustained translations by from
quo-, one of his liveliest plays , offered as a specimen of the " riot and misrule " that we ambitious women were-ready to inaugurate . Coarser
words still our Greek scholar might have taken from the same source to illustrate his theory . Pie knew very well that the ninebut
teenth century would bear hints , insinuations , sneers , anything p Women lain speaking sometimes . We talk have of Aristop limits hanes ; he observed as if they them had read and his forbore plays .
with did not pleasure take , the a . thing whole I can significance only accoun of what t for by they supposing read , and that _^ thi they s is
often the case with men . When I first took penknowing well that I should speak
up my , from of Margaret hersI Fuller didnot ' s kno beloved w that Greek I sh ould in a have tone the somewhat sympath different y of a
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/29/
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