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Beauty's triumph: or, The superiority of the fair sex invincibly proved. [electronic resource] : Wherein the arguments for the natural right of man to a Sovereign authority over the woman are fairly urged and undeniably refuted; and the undoubted title of the ladies, even to a superiority over the men, both in head and heart, is clearly evinced; shewing their minds to be as much more beautiful than the mens as their bodies; and that, if they had the same advantages of education, they would excel their tyrants as much in sense as they do in virtue. In three parts. The whole interspers'd with a delightful variety of characters, which some of the most celebrated heroes and heroins of the present time have had the goodness to fit for

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