| R. H. Andrews - 1912 - 480 pages
...Man, and therefore the State in which you will find solid Happiness. Your Reasons against entering into it at present appear to me as to be not well...Discernment. Together they are most likely to succeed ift the World. A single Man has not nearly the Value he would have in that State of Union. He is an... | |
| Sydney George Fisher - 1898 - 440 pages
...and strength of reason. He her softness, sensibility, and acute discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the world. A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. If you... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1899 - 1110 pages
...Franklin when he wrote a young friend: "It is the man and woman united that make the compleat human being. Separate, she wants his force of body and strength...sensibility, and acute discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the world. A single man has not nearly the value he would have in the state... | |
| Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pages
...Franklin when he wrote. a young friend : " It is the man and woman united that make the compleat human being. Separate, she wants his force of body and strength...sensibility, and acute discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the world. A single man has not nearly the value he would have in the state... | |
| 1899 - 1010 pages
...and strength of reason; he, her softness, sensibility, and acute discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the world. A single man has not nearly the value he would have in the state of union. He is an incompleat animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors. If... | |
| William Josephus Robinson - 1919 - 412 pages
...namely: The being married and settled. It is the man and the woman united that make the complete human being. Separate she wants his force of body and strength of reason ; he, her softness and acute discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the world. A single man has not... | |
| Sydney George Fisher - 1926 - 446 pages
...comparison with that of the thing itself. " It is the man and woman united that make the complete human being. Separate she wants his force of body and strength...sensibility, and acute discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the world. A single man has not nearly the value be would have in a state... | |
| Alan Dundes, Carl R. Pagter - 1987 - 276 pages
...itself — The being married and settled. It is the man and woman united that make the complete human being. Separate, she wants his force of body and strength...sensibility and acute discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the world. A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state... | |
| Philip Greven - 1988 - 449 pages
...knew, as Benjamin Franklin observed, that "It is the Man and Woman united that make the compleat human Being. Separate, she wants his Force of Body and Strength...Sensibility and acute Discernment. Together they are more likely to succeed in the World." As with power and liberty, both the masculine and the feminine... | |
| Barbara B. Oberg, Harry S. Stout - 1993 - 241 pages
...that make the compleat human Being," he wrote in his famous 1745 letter on the choice of a mistress; "Separate, she wants his Force of Body and Strength...of Reason; he, her Softness, Sensibility, and acute Discernment."80 Women, he variously observed in the later decades of his life, were less rivalrous... | |
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