Some Reflections Upon Marriage. With additions.

If there be a Disagreeableness of Humours, this, in my Mind, is harder to be born than greater Faults, as being a continual Plague, and for the most Part incurable. Other Vices...

Is it the being tied to _One_ that offends us? Why this ought rather to recommend it to us, and would really do so, were we guided by Reason, and not by Humour or brutish Passio...

But how can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? When from his own Elevation he looks down on them as void of Understanding, full of Ign...

That the Custom of the World, has put Women, generally speaking, into a State of Subjection, is not denied; but the Right can no more be prov’d from the Fact, than the Predomina...

But there are few Women whose Understandings are worth the Management, their Estates are much more capable of Improvement. No Woman, much less a Woman of Fortune, is ever fit to...

Shewing, the due Behaviour of _Women_, the _Vices_ they ought to _Shun_, and the _Virtues_ they ought to _Practice_. A Treatise very necessary, in _this degenerate Age_, to _con...

It was a _Widow-Woman_ whom _GOD_ made choice of to sustain his Prophet _Elijah_ at _Zarephah_. And the History of the _Shunamite_ is a noble Instance of the Account that is mad...

But some sage Persons may, perhaps object, that were Women allow’d to improve themselves, and not, amongst other Discouragements, driven back by the wise Jests and Scoffs that a...