Woman and Her Master, Band 1Carey and Hart, 1840 - 420 Seiten |
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... less cruel ; and the appe- tite for blood , the ferocious instinct of semi - civilized man , has diminished . The scaffold is less frequently erected , the stake has been torn up ; the fagot has been quenched ; and the rack and the ...
... less cruel ; and the appe- tite for blood , the ferocious instinct of semi - civilized man , has diminished . The scaffold is less frequently erected , the stake has been torn up ; the fagot has been quenched ; and the rack and the ...
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... less temperate re- gions , she is even yet more degraded and helpless . The object and the victim of a brutal sensuality , her life passes in humiliating restriction and debasing ignorance ; while her death is not unusually an act of ...
... less temperate re- gions , she is even yet more degraded and helpless . The object and the victim of a brutal sensuality , her life passes in humiliating restriction and debasing ignorance ; while her death is not unusually an act of ...
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... less para- disaical earth with races of angelic form and glorious mind ; * he seemed of another creation , a specimen apart from man . In his person he was all deformity and dis- proportion ; in his intellectual frame he was all density ...
... less para- disaical earth with races of angelic form and glorious mind ; * he seemed of another creation , a specimen apart from man . In his person he was all deformity and dis- proportion ; in his intellectual frame he was all density ...
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... less objects of superstitious fear , as presumed pos- sessors of a mysterious power , arising in some undefined intellectual superiority , some sorceress - like enchantment , which holds in awe and apprehension their tyrants and ...
... less objects of superstitious fear , as presumed pos- sessors of a mysterious power , arising in some undefined intellectual superiority , some sorceress - like enchantment , which holds in awe and apprehension their tyrants and ...
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... less strikingly degraded than that of the females of those vast empires of the East , which vaunt an antique origin , and in which the lights of a semi - civilisa- tion have surrounded a fraction at least of the species with the ...
... less strikingly degraded than that of the females of those vast empires of the East , which vaunt an antique origin , and in which the lights of a semi - civilisa- tion have surrounded a fraction at least of the species with the ...
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