Report: First International Woman Suffrage Conference Held at Washington, U.S.A., February 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 1902, in Connection with and by Invitation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association

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Página 9 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds ; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him...
Página 6 - Thoughts that great hearts, once broke for, we Breathe cheaply in the common air ; The dust we trample heedlessly Throbbed once in saints and heroes rare, Who perished, opening for their race New pathways to the commonplace.
Página 52 - ... instructions. Should her parents, through excess of tenderness, allow her to grow up self-willed, she will infallibly show herself capricious in her husband's house, and thus alienate...
Página 28 - ... having regard to the welfare of the infant, and to the conduct of the parents, and to the wishes as well of the mother as of the father...
Página 52 - A woman shall be divorced if she fail to bear children, the reason for this rule being that women are sought in marriage for the purpose of giving men posterity. A barren woman should, however, be retained if her heart...
Página 4 - That men and women are born equally free and independent members of the human race; equally endowed with intelligence and ability, and equally entitled to the free exercise of their individual rights and liberty.
Página 4 - That the ballot is the only legal and permanent means of defending the rights to 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,' pronounced inalienable by the American Declaration of Independence, and accepted as inalienable by all civilised nations.
Página 52 - It is the chief duty of a girl living in the parental house to practise filial piety towards her father and mother. But, after marriage, her chief duty is to honour her fatherin-law and mother-in-law, — to honour them beyond her own father and mother, — to love and reverence them with all ardour, and to tend them with every practice of filial piety.
Página 29 - Ireing imjiri^f ned for three years and upwards, and still in prison, under a commuted sentence for a capital crime, or under sentence to penal servitude for seven years and upwards ; attempt to murder or...
Página 52 - Parents ! teach the foregoing maxims to your daughters from their tenderest years ! Copy them out from time to time, that they may read and never forget them ! Better than the garments and divers vessels which the fathers of the present day so lavishly bestow upon their daughters when giving them away in marriage, were it to teach them thoroughly these precepts, which would guard them as a precious jewel throughout their lives. How true is that ancient...

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