# Brief Reflections relative to the Emigrant French Clergy

Author: Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29125

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Brief+Reflections+relative+to+the+Emigrant+French+Clergy+Burney&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

However wide from the allotted boundaries and appointed province of Females may be all interference in public matters, even in the agitating season of general calamity; it does not thence follow that they are exempt from all public claims, or mere passive spectatresses of the moral as well as of the political oeconomy of human life. The distinct ties of their prescriptive duties, which, pointed out by Nature, have been recognised by reason, and established by custom, remove, indeed, from their view and knowledge all materials for forming public characters. The privacy, therefore, of their lives is the dictate of common sense, stimulated by local discretion. But in the doctrine of morality...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/brief-reflections-relative-to-the-emigrant-french-clergy-29125/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/brief-reflections-relative-to-the-emigrant-french-clergy-29125/chapters/2/index.md)