 | Rachel Hunter - 1803 - 234 pages
...them. I have feen unjuft, cruel, and weak mothers; fome the rivals of their blooming daughters; fome the felfifh impediments to their fons* eftablifhment...mortification. Yet I do not hate the name of a mother. On the contrary, I reverence it as the rnoft honourable defignation in hu-man life: and when I fee this... | |
 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...MOTHER-IN-LAW. ruin the ill-fated object of tineir foolish and criminal preference, and, by thneir repulsive manners, condemn an unoffending child to dejection...mortification. Yet I do not hate the name of a mother. Os's tine contrary, I reverence it as the most honourable (lesignation in human life; and when I see... | |
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the felfifh impediments to their fons' eftablifhment in the world. I have feen others, led by a blind and capricious partiality, ruin the ill-fated object of their foolifh and criminal preference, and, by their repulfive manners, condemn an unoffending... 