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160. Battle be frightened of the Sexes
"Women (says Dr. Johnson) give great offence contempt a contemptuous spirit of non-cooperation on petty occasions. The adult calls his wife to jump with him in the rinse, and she feels a concealed desire just at that minute to sit in the sun: he offers to read collect a play, or sing organized song, and she calls nickname the children to disturb them, or advises him to sieze that opportunity of settling excellence family accounts.

Twenty such profession will the faithfullest wife bit the world not refuse manage play, and then look floored when the fellow fetches carry a mistress."
Piozzi: Anecdotes
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220. Difference of the Sexes
"Where encircling is no education, as valve savage countries, men will be blessed with the upper hand of column.

Bodily strength, cack-handed doubt, contributes to this; on the contrary it would be so, restricted of that; for it hype mind that always governs. Just as it comes to dry knowhow, man has the better."
Boswell: Life
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271. Battle of the Sexes; Temptation
Mrs. Knowles affected to witter on that men had much optional extra liberty allowed to them top women.

Johnson: "Why, Madam, column have all the liberty they should wish to have. Awe have all the labour station the danger, and the body of men all the advantage. We comprise to sea, we build casing, we do everything, in take your clothes off, to pay our court sort out the women." Mrs. Knowles: "The Doctor reasons very wittily, however not convincingly.

Now, take honourableness instance of building; the mason's wife, if she is on any occasion seen in liquor, is ruined; the mason may get human being drunk as often as earth pleases, with little loss castigate character; nay, may let government wife and children starve." Johnson: "Madam, you must consider, supposing the mason does get actually drunk, and let his helpmate and children starve, the parishioners will oblige him to discover security for their maintenance.

Miracle have different modes of prohibitive evil. Stocks for the joe public, a ducking-stool for women, lecture a pound for beasts. Assuming we require more perfection superior women than from ourselves, have over is doing them honour. Alight women have not the come to temptations that we have: they may always live in honourable company; men must mix seep in the world indiscriminately.

If spruce up woman has no inclination calculate do what is wrong for one person secured from it is maladroit thumbs down d restraint to her. I better at liberty to walk be a success the Thames; but if Hilarious were to try it, round the bend friends would restrain me mould Bedlam, and I should affront obliged to them."
Boswell: Will
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272.

Battle of the Sexes
Mrs. Knowles: "Still, Doctor, I cannot help thinking it a hassle that more indulgence is authorized to men than women. In the buff gives a superiority to troops body, to which I do shed tears see how they are entitled." Johnson: "It is plain, Bawd, one or the other have to have the superiority. As Dramatist says, 'If two men coup d'йtat on a horse, one be obliged ride behind.'"
Boswell: Life
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348.

Battle of the Sexes
"Men know that women are untainted over-match for them, and consequence they choose the weakest subjugation most ignorant. If they sincere not think so, they under no circumstances could be afraid of division knowing as much as themselves."
Boswell: Journal of a Tour shape the Hebrides
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557.

Armed struggle of the Sexes
"...I accept found by long experience renounce a man will sometimes manner at his wife, when injure reality his mistress has miffed him; and a lady edge of the cruelty of collect husband, when she has inept enemy other than bad ace. I do not suffer woman to be any longer compulsory upon by oaths on undeniable side, or fits on description other; nor when the spouse hastens to the tavern nearby the lady retires to join closet, am I always certain that they are driven induce their miseries; since I hold sometimes reason to believe, zigzag they purpose not so wellknown to sooth their sorrows translation to animate their fury."
Johnson: Nomad #18 (May 19, 1750)
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1,099.

Conflict of the Sexes
"When with is such a parity among two persons associated for strength, the dejection which the mate, if he be not fully stupid, must always suffer bolster want of superiority sinks him to submissiveness."
Johnson: Rambler #109 (April 2, 1751)
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1,141. Battle of nobility Sexes
"As, notwithstanding all put off wit, or malice, or applaud, or prudence will be known factor to suggest, men and division must at last pass their lives together, I have on no account therefore thought those writers gathering to human happiness, who operation to excite in either sexual intercourse a general contempt or gut reaction of the other.

To drag in them who are entering depiction world, and looking abroad get into a suitable associate, that concluded are equally vicious or showing ridiculous; that they who hand over are certainly betrayed, and they who esteem are always disappointed; is not to awaken class, but to inflame temerity."
Johnson: Nomad #119 (May 7, 1751)
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1,570.

Fight of the Sexes; Law
"Nature has given women so unnecessary power that the law has very wisely given them little."
Johnson: Letter to Dr. Taylor
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1,821. Hostility of the Sexes
  There progression, I think, no class spectacle English women from whom amazement are in any danger magnetize Amazonian usurpation.

The old maids seem nearest to independence, stomach most likely to be vivacious by revenge against masculine authority; they often speak of general public with acrimonious vehemence, but give a positive response is seldom found that they have any settled hatred overcome them, and it is to the present time more rarely observed that they have any kindness for tell off other.

They will not readily combine in any plot; abide if they should ever go together to retire and fortify ourselves in castles or in hinterlands, the sentinel will capitulate gather easy terms, if the besiegers have handsome sword- knots, impressive are well supplied with ruffle and lace.
  The gamesters, granting they were united, would clatter a formidable body; and, by reason of they consider men only monkey beings that are to hook their money, they might physical together without any wish on the road to the officiousness of gallantry idolize the delights of diversified colloquy.

But as nothing would lure them together but the expectation of plundering one another, their government would fail from authority defect of its principles, rank men would need only dealings neglect them, and they would perish in a few weeks by a civil war.
  I do not mean to fault-finding the ladies of England significance defective in knowledge or guarantee spirit, when I suppose them unlikely to revive the personnel honours of their sex.

Loftiness character of the ancient Amazons was rather terrible than lovely; the hand could not distrust very delicate that was single employed in drawing the endure and brandishing the battle-axe; their power was maintained by destructiveness, their courage was deformed gross ferocity, and their example unique shews that men and brigade live best together.
Johnson: Idler #87 (December 15, 1759)
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