 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 614 páginas
...irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She ftrikes with fuch addrefs the cords of felf-love, that fhe gives unexpected vigour and agility to fancy; and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric. I have mentioned here the women of England ; and I have done wrong. J did not... | |
 | 1800 - 624 páginas
...irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She ftrikes with fuch addrefs the cords of felf-love, that ihe gives unexpected vigour and agility to fancy ; and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric. I have mentioned here thé women of England ; and I have done wrong. I did not... | |
 | John Adams - 1816 - 346 páginas
...compare with a French woman : it is in the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of...and agility to fancy ; and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric. I have mentioned here the women of England ; and I have done wrong. I did not... | |
 | 1832 - 574 páginas
...intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords nf self-love, that she gives unexpected vigour and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appeared nonelectric. " I have mentioned here the women of England ; and I have dune wrong. I did not... | |
 | Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - 1832 - 382 páginas
...compare with a French woman; it is in the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of...and agility to fancy ; and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric. I have mentioned here the women of England ; and I have done wrong. I did not... | |
 | 1832 - 652 páginas
...compare with a Frenchwoman ; it is in the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of...and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric. ' I have mentioned here the women of England ; and I have done wrong ; I did... | |
 | 1834 - 506 páginas
...compare with a French woman ; it is in the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of...and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric. I have mentioned here the women of England, and I have done wrong. I did not... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 328 páginas
...can compare with a French woman. It is the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that she gives unexpected vigor and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appears non-electric." As to the French men,... | |
 | Anna U. Russell - 1853 - 580 páginas
...compare with a Frenchwoman ; it is in the power of intellectual excitement. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes, with such address, the chords...and agility to fancy, and electrifies a body that appeared non-electric. I have mentioned here the women of England ; and I have done wrong. — I did... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 512 páginas
...grace ; she embellishes a trifle ; interests upon nothing ; she softens a contradiction ; she takes off the insipidity of a compliment, by turning it...visit his Tyrone estates ; but that was not the first occasion of the lady's visit to Mountjoy Forest. The marriage had been so far kept a secret, that many... | |
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Shenstone gave no bad account of this influence in his description of the French woman : " There is a quality in which no woman in the world can compete with her, — it is the power of intellectual irritation. She will draw wit out of a fool. She strikes... 
