 | 1794 - 450 pages
...excuse, but in in a sort of humorous philosophy turns off the thought of her guilt, and says, " That if weak women go astray, Their stars are more in fault than they." ' This no doubt is a full reparation, and dismisses the audience with very edifying impressions. '... | |
 | 1809 - 536 pages
...may Bow, however strong the sense may be which they include, if they are meant to insinuate that " When weak women go astray, Their stars are more in fault than they," we here enter our protest against jsuch opinions. The power of religion operating upon reason on ;hl... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 312 pages
...excuse, but in a sort of humorous philosophy turns off the thought of her guilt, and says, " That if weak women go astray, " Their stars are more in fault than they." " This, no doubt, is a full reparation, and dismisses the audience with very edifying impressions.... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1811 - 486 pages
...were such things common amongst us. lisra, and to which so many, even in these days, are inclined, " when weak women go astray Their stars are more in fault than they." I once heard a female who had made an imprudent marriage attribute it, not to her own fault, but to... | |
 | 1814 - 568 pages
...actions are in some degree governed by fate is a very early dogma, and is not entirely abandoned, " And when weak women go astray, Their stars are more in fault than they." The Duke de Rochefoucault seems to have acknowledged the principle : " II semble que nos actions aient... | |
 | James Somerville Baron Somerville - 1815 - 536 pages
...customes of more civillized nationes. These di1 This is anticipating the indulgent maxim of Prior : " That when weak women go astray, " Their stars are more in fault than they." rectiones of the king's most of the nobilitie observed ; but ther was non soe punctuall of his majesties... | |
 | Helen Maria Williams - 1815 - 408 pages
...one of our poets has good-humouredly framed this apology for one part of the creation ; " When poor weak women go astray, " Their stars are more in fault than they." But the stars have been long since exonerated from those undeserved reproaches ; and we are now told... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1815 - 524 pages
...My dear Margaret, affairs begin to wear a new aspect, still however under the planet Venus. " And if weak women go astray, Their stars are more in fault than they.'' We must come round to a belief in judicial astrology again, because there is no other way by which... | |
 | Helen Maria Williams - 1816 - 404 pages
...one of our poets has good-humouredly framed* this apology for one part of the creation ; " When poor weak women go astray, " Their stars are more in fault than they." But the stars have been long since exonerated from those undeserved reproaches; and we are now told... | |
 | Helen Maria Williams - 1816 - 262 pages
...one of our poets has good-humouredly framed this apology for one part of the creation; " When poor weak women go astray, ' " Their stars are more in fault than they." But the stars have been long since exonerated from those undeserved reproaches; and we are now told... | |
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... in a sort of humorous philosophy turns off the thought of her guilt, and says, ' That if weak women go astray, Their stars are more in fault than they. 
