An enquiry into the duties of the female sex / By Thomas Gisborne.

  • Gisborne, Thomas, 1758-1846.
Date:
1813
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Credit: An enquiry into the duties of the female sex / By Thomas Gisborne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the rules by which they act are truly Christian rules, that is to say, expressly contained in the Gospel, or fairly deduciblc from it. And, secondly ; that they scarcely consider at all that a conformity even to right rules cannot be expected to be available in the sight of God, except it proceeds, in pro- portion to our knowledge, from Christian views and dispo- sitions ; from a profound reverence and grateful love for our Supreme Benefactor, and, an earnest desire to obey and please him in every action, and thus habitually to live not unto ourselves but unto Christ who died for us. ClIAFfER ir. SENERAL GROUNDS OF THF. IMPORTANCE OF THE FEMALE CHARACTER BRIEFLY STATED. In the course of a work which purposes to investigate some- what at length the several duties of the female sex, the im- portance of the female character will naturally disclose itself. It is not by studied panegyric, but by delineating in detail the various and momentous duties, to the discharge of which women are called both by reason and revelation, that the influence of feminine virtues will be rendered most con- spicuous. It is thus too that the responsibility attached to that influence in all its branches, in all its minutest capacities of being beneficially employed, will be placed in the strongest light; a circumstance of no small efficacy as to precluding the emotions of arrogance and the confidence of self-sufficiency which arc ever likely to be produced by simple eulogium. The general contempt, therefore, which is sometimes ma- nifested respecting women by persons of the other sex, and most frequently by persons who are the least capable of