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Terra
del
France
and
Italy
produced
from
a
redundance
of
it
delicacy,
them
till
flie
expired
on
the
fpot.
In
Scotland,
Ooacina, as that
the
moft
public
companies,
make
indelicacy ftill
fible
covers
In
can be afcribed
it falls
under our
deftroys
them
alto-
gether
fame
time
that
delicacy
was
a
latent
in
opportunity
queen
that
he
fhould
expiate
own
life.
inflanccsof
There
not fatisfied that they fliould abftain
from vice only, have required them even to ftiun every appear-
ance
of
it.
ages
be
mcafijre
directed
refinement.
Such
as
we
as
\ve
a
reludance
at
fharing
with
an-
.ics
origin.'
which the women
bathe in
whether
kings were
at this
of private
muft
be
but
ill
acquainted
with
the
and
feelings
with
an
rather than
founded
on
nature
refifl:-
as carefully
clothed in
under,
are
infancy,
con-
fined
as
prifoners,
which
wife;
and
no
of
defperate villain
eunuchs,
made
incapable
of
many
centuries,
made
ufe
of
padlocks
allow
another
a
tafte
of
the
night,
when
this
is
not
all,
female delin-
be
whipped.
that it
to
fociety
or
be managed
of preferving.
affair of
population, that,
country
an-
nexed
to
unchaftity,
to the
founds,
and
after-
of
the fcale
fmall
degree
of
probability,
its
powers
lefs
extenfible,
becaufe
if
there
but
among
the
Egyptians,
them
borrowed,
1
lent,
cienc,
them
other fex, and evea
ftrength
of women,
be
a^
man
begin by
in
vifibly
different.
they
have
to
work
with,
we
cannot
help
owning
that
they
fhew
on the
confider the
of
almoft
all
nations
afcribe
to
to Ma-
only of fpinning
Such, and
whatever
has
been
done
by
the
boafted
ingenuity
throws
a
damp
exhibited
queens,
whofe
would
and
reftore
the
natural
rights
of
mankind
con-
coun-
tries,
air;
of
exercife,
confined
than of nature.
by
ludicrous
inferior to
by
all
allowed
to
have
been
an
for the reafons already
with
the
Euro-
peans.
of
the
dawning
of
human
reafon,
which
at
prefent
feems
a
defcendent
he
tell
me,
whether
ages and
 
acquired graces was undoubtedly
their moft
by
degrees
crime,
became
fubjedl
to.
the
moft
horrid
barbarities
thefe
were
were
was
but
good
or
of
evil
beings,
and
tries
lengths.
The
Scandinavians,
Germane,
and by
in the South,
men in the South are, by the cl mate and
their
low
diet
in-
his
houfe,
and
of
diftindtion
be-
tween
their
confiftent evi-
men often
availed themfelves
of witchcraft
What
the
Greek
emperors
at
Conftantinople,
an
officer
of
high
rank
was
con-
demned
for
pradifing
fecrets
it,
they
were
all
three
found
guilty
guilty, and
Every fimilar
be
the
fuffer
death.
The
;
others,
not
more
fufpedted
fhall give
K
2
at
as
fatten
on the farce
fuch women as
might
world,
by
a
the
Dodor
being a
to come,
minuteft
if the devil
envoys,
**
tranf-
would
brand
him
and
pofl efllon,
he
foon
fubjed,
it
times,
we
are
of
opinion,
and
feem
impelled
by
nature,
have
been
known,
where
nuns,
for
want
of
any
other
objed,
have
attached
themfelves
women,
who,
befides
at-
tacks
medilnk'sf
the
failors
companions, to
a
heart
of
but even this lofs,
down to
ancient
to he^r fex,
and
others
again
valuing
every
at
the
height
Dubbiofi.
Upon
her
fitter,
the
the
fame
temple
; it
gives an

we
our
chap.
fair
readers.
imitator.
Though
Iwln
of
The
reafons
which
;
and needed
the leaft
preparation. Strabo
ufed in the
the
it
was
an
eafy
; but thofe
that were
but we
mufl: obferve,
that they
to many
when he
fuppofed
to
be
contrivance
to
keep
thefe
firm
it.
Some
particularly
the
Mi-
O
Tyrian
fea
When
the
ancient
Peruvians
cli-
the
body
where
female
charms
and
graces
are
important
affair
of
having
her
head-drefs
properly
adjufted,
as
im-
t
of
ihall find
of declamation
vilify
naturally firfb
The oldeft diamond
thofe
that
bright
ftones,
which
they
threw
away
as
of
no
confequence
on a
company the
prefent compre-
diftin-
O
5
to
Homer
were
diftinguifhed
by
the
and
nefs
to the cheeks, and gives the fkin a remarkable glofs. PofT;-
bly
time in compofing head-drefles,-
means of
defcribe the
that
moderns,
and
for
them,
j
a
fourth
laid
on
exalted,
what
colours
;
the
with
prefent,
a
head-drefs
ready
built,
the Roman
off
by
warm
milk
of
much
attention
were
 
pofed.
but to
fold for its weight
of
the year two
was
in
thefe
days
the
year
five
hundred
and
fifty-five,
two
at
Palermo,
where
they
wheel
that
is
turned
by
water.
Such
common
colour
of
the
garments
of
wearing
red
ones
empire.
Shoes,
with
high
heels,
were
taller;
the
priefts
wore.
a ftate
of infancy
; of the
drefs,
Drefsofthe
we have been
the
Middle
Ages,
or
after
they
remarks
on
the
drefs
of
the
it
to
the
utmoft
: fo great,
piece
a fharp
part with
famous tapeftry
are there
any without
acquainted
manner;
fure
had
not
then
dif-
covered
the
ma-
terials
and
faftiion
of
whereas thofe
that
end
of
drawing
many
people
to-
gether
the
only
another
of
drefs,
had
CHAP.
XXH.
occafion
to
and
wires
women over
luftre to
to
the
ears
only,
the
ancient
inhabitants
the
N.
123
purpofe
by an
indulgent climate
and a
ingly fond, that the
clothes and
defire.
naked,
are
ambitious
to
be
fine,
and
other.
There
are
few
American
at
the
fame
time
to
and love
of finery;
ornaments
from
Europe,
the
Americans
them
to
the
ornament
ornament,
or
rather
to
disfigure,
the
body
itfelf
of
an
in
quan-
up
at
an
in
long
be-
decoration,
the
paf-
fions
of
with;
though
purchafed
at
rank
and
condition
of
life
the
magnificence
which
circumftancea
and
decoration of
from the higheft to
them
befl: defences
are

example,
as
well
as
his
dodrine,
the
in
his
fhame,
as an
the people.
exceptions
proflitutes.
The
French
ladies
voice
and
com-
hardly
yet
exlinguiflied,
dig-
nity
which
refemblance
to
that
which
we
have
nor
have
;
metamor-
their
foft
that
infpires
it,
is
ufed to
in
the
CHAP,
male,
and
that
of
refufing
in
the
that flie
has been
as
luctant
female
the
deli-
cate
feelings
and
has
nature
for
her
bafis.
4
Allowing
that Ifaac
of
the
ladies
they
were
fent
properties, and
if
Ifaac his father, court
perfon,
and
their
firft
meeting
has
may venture
to affirm,
a
ridiculous
her,
impofed
brethren
of
Dinah,
making
of
fuperior
flaves,
the cafe
happily re-
feme
every one
with
the
addrefles
U 2 to
denied to the young,
had
but
few
bofoms
that
compofed
fenti-
mental
fentimeni
enquire
fo
univer-
fally
difFufed
coa-
tinued
each
other,
bark
of
the
Garlands
were
of
great
ufe
;
methods
of
difcovering
by
thefc
but
immediately
had
re-
courfe
things
they
productions of
fire,
reprefenting
the
object
of
fingular
advantage,
and
depofited
between
the
tarch
the
affeflions
illufive,
but
illegal,
and
and
circumftantial
detail
of
all
his
exploits,
and
 
*'
*'
of
we learn that
magiiificeuT
and
fplendid
a
vefTel,
to the
would feera
that charms
myfelf
we
are
confidering,
not
rely-
ing
themfelves the witnefles
ftars, and throw
::
 
who an-
flain his
made
him
her
hufband
and
her
flave.
From
whether
they
would
be
agree-
able
lovers .^
could
the cuftom
fpoils taken in
not entirely
to
fee,
to the mutual
general,
not
to
a
particular
woman;
butbecaufe
they
find
the
fafhion
wives
; and,
therefore,
in
which
they
ad-
drefs
the
with
a
hofe
people,
and
more;
unlefs,
when
a
he
goes
from
time
to
plays upon fome
her's,
marriage:
extenfive
regions,
not in
managed.
by
bcuig
drunk
;
pays
feldom
foon
and
there
leave
her.
For
fome
her
relations.
As
women
of
falhion
are,
however,
patient fuf^^
at
may
Some of the
love; and
ftreets every
were tied
one often
fome-
timcs
for
years,
well
the little
few
centuries
be.
As
each other. This
Coartdiipby
enquiry we have
fecn, that of
affec-
have
been
objedt
by
a
fum
of
money
as
the
portion
woman,
naturally
Conjeflures
averfe
to
fcenes
in
cnfaifeiy
manners
and
cuitoms
ot
palt
records
they
have
fearched,
or
which
they
marri-
age,
have
generally
fad, which,
the prefent
fo
conveniently
from
the
ground,
we the
fet
up
the
Romans,
and
uncultivated
people.
The
together
as
bitants
but the
in
taking
a
of
or by any
their weapons
are laid
Egypt,
is
heroes
and
afhft
him
;
the
following
words
(hall
have
the
in
the
prefence
of,
and
herfelf the
night before,
appeared in
*.
bed,
man
in
thine
own
likenefs,
 
where ten
who
was
one
of
the
fons
their
contem-
poraries.
all the
in need
had bought, and
and
they
parted
with
mutual
confent.
a court folely for
and
of
of
the
manner
how
have
omitted,
;
rrh d* ' ^'i
but
the
favour
of
opened,
the
gall
ta-
ken
out,
and
intimate that all
into
turtles feen in
con-
D
d
2
trading
diftributed
of the bridegroom
door
of
it,
barley,
relations on
to the
known,
Athens,
obliged
to
eat
bed-chamber
and
the
fecond
to
awake
She
will
need
to
invoke
the
crow.
Manner
of
marrying
at
Sparta.
left
her
fitting
through the whole of
only
in
his
code
of
legiflation
promulgated
a
few
made
a
hufbands,
they are
or
even
by
the
magiftrates,
to
every country has
;
Romans,
chufing for
put
to
fale
by
her
;
tions
give
his
daughter
to
the
fuitor
; the
kinds
CHAP.
any
compul-
fion
feem
that
this
was
Maimon
tells
us,
that
in
nations
which
praQifed
polygamy
great degree
as u'e find it
our
aftonifhment
is
flill
more
Vol.
F
f
gofpel
or
when
they
took
place,
are
among
women
greatly
otherwife
many
women
muft
be
Conrequcnces
rer
they
have
not
influence
a tyrant,
than the
love and
concubines
as
in-
clination
didlated,
and
circumftances
even in
fo
clofely
providing
he could never with
legifla-
is circumftanced
to
en-
Eaft,
fpace
of
a
ftop to
by
not blacken her
 
trary is the
own
property,
or
even
if
fhe
prefumes
I
creafe
wives.
duty
of
marriage
to
in
a
they
fliall
dired.
Amoxg
the
ancient
Germans,
and
other
northern
wives being
tribes,
however,
who
Friday
of
animal
and
to
that
he
a woman
pof--
and
caufe
him
;
interpreter,
are
not
fo
favourable
the
to have
which
Eartem
ideas
among
all
The fecond
is, when
a man
legiflature
was
not
direded
fo
much
a
climate
where
animal
love
is
the
fome Greek
copies of
before
that
agalnfl
into
off
her
hair
to
the
ideas
entertained
of
women,
and
to
the
power
affumed
over
them;
where
efficacy,
and
at
Canute,
to
deftroy
or
difable
her
methods of
Jefus,
always
condemned
adulterers
may
ceafe
defiled.
And
Pope
Six-
tus
Quintus,
not
content
in writing,
invalidate
the
evidence
pleafure
at
pleafure.
rabbies
hufband,
if
a
wife
fpoiled
his
life.
Was
it
poffible
has
been
hufband
the
Cherokees,
the
women
are
portion
again,
if
he
has
an
ofFenfive
breath
fwine,
and
the
woman
all
met with
celi-
that
endea-
Greek
women ;
fate in
and
even
Vol.
II.
I
i
chil-
dren
fcarcely
punifliments were
them;
their fathers
not marry
like
himfelf
have
been
praflifcd
in unto
rebelled againft
are
told,
that
his father,
breed
of
men,
;
other nations,
whom we
confequently,
on
account
of
pro-
perty,
which
marriage
of
a
and
the
wife
an
unlimited
refped
for
nature
and woman,
not related
libertinifm
themfelves,
to
infringe
the
laws
of
the
But befides the
rank
and
The
Egyptians,
though
they
indulged
their
laity
in
polygamy,
would
not
grant
the
Ifraelites
were
graces
wanton
in
waving
ringlets
progrefs of
it, to
Marriage
ce-
remonies
mans,
diftlnguifhed
hufband
had
fettled
a
dower
in our
man
marry
the
cafe is
which
they
held
unfortu-
fire and water
fhe was
name
the
fat
im-
mediately
after,
family.
After
the
young
couple
were
a bride.
 Such were
the ceremonies
by which
additional
ceremonies
to
the
widows,
of
Romans.
a degree
and uncultivated.
fifled
of
fword
her hufband
a prefent
from thence to
her arrival,-
folemn
and
laws
of
a
dif-
ferent
nature
of appropri-
procefs
of
time,
to
have
been
R
Y
c
H
A
P.
Among
nations
do penance, and
and a penalty
whatever.
the
globe,
by
a
In (hort,
a man
of
it,
without
being
laid
under
contribution
by
cere-
mony,
it
civil
tranfaiftion.
Marriage,
therefore^
as
all
other'
tranfadions
ofa;
In
Europe,
by fociety,
a regard
to the
part
fome-
the
property to
bride, and
expreflive
to
brandy,
rein-deer,
of
been
anciently
pradifed
in
Canada,
pieces
as
there
were
witnefles,
and
gave
ceremony,
V
inacch-mak-
political
rein-deer. The
or
convey
to
an
oflr-
fpring,
by
difeafes
rendered
unable
only
performed
but
for
life,
that
neither
the
houfe
of
of his
n'^hf.
{hall
what he
them
methods
command
had
been
given,
how
the propa-
and
moft
ungovernable
were
men
various
St.
Anthony,
it
was
no
uncommon
thing
the ordonnances
concubines,
but
743,
all
the
canons
againft
marriage
provided
he
obferved
the
laws
of
piety
and
advance
their
own
intereft,
the
order
Ifle,
now
called
Ely,
it
iis name
of
the
as
ftill retained their wives,
and fathers
which
the
clergy
the
Reformation
to purchafe them
lawful for
continued fo
;
contending for
were
a
fad,
altogether
unaccountable
^J^,v
into
time
the women,
concealed any
of
all
the
for-
mer
faults
of
their
penitents.
Being,
no doubt, com-
was to fecure
the women, with
that the French
difcover
alfo
the
origin
of
nunneries
fenfible,
that
amiable,
might
fre-
quently
at
would
take
pleafure
unpoliflicd.
In
the
have
no
to
the
mar-
has
we
lefs
indifToluble
than
marriage
of
fortune,
pro-
concubine,
and
the
for
feveral
men, as
confider the
confider
themfelves
as
oracles
; taught to
form their
of
the
weaker.
in
other
nations,
vantage.
It
the
inter-
vals
they exprefs
beft, becaufe
evils, and
fo dif-
to
a
coun-
dows
having
hear
their
cry
the
near-
tft
relation
only
was
not
then
fo
conneded
ftrength
has
hardly
any
in fome
flock
of
provi-
fions
more
benevolent
atmofphere,
and
warmed
widowmot
by
woman
who
married
a
fecond
;
 
and
The
Greeks,
who
derived
their
the time in
In
her
huf-
band.
cuftom
than
by
law.
chamber hung
to
this
purpofe.
Mufkohge
and
branches
cut
their power
northern
parts
con-
demned
to
fuffer
negligent
and
and
to
deny
fhould
fhe has no
in
no
the flaves of
ftrangled,
fuch, they
fexes
were
formerly
obliged
pro-
vide
fubfiftence
for
themfelves
fame
grave,
no
of
every
individual
is
a
lofs
manner
of
many
other
nations,
but
burn
their
funeral
pile
of their
a
facrifice
all
the
they
take
to confider this
life.
the
extra-
ordinary
that
youth and beauty,
by
either.
It
may,
perhaps,
be
alleged
drags
of
all
the
remonflrances
of
his
royal
mafler
and
women
were
fo
rit,
and
the
and
is
afterward
held
down
by
long
left
no
arguments
unattempted
to
deceafedwas-
carried
widow followed about
that,
corner
deceafed, and
then advancing,
fhe looked
combuftible
matter,
the
fupporters
and cannot
treated
in
this
indignant
relations
have
no
power
or
and
it
frequently
the time of
as
foon
as
the
bargain
is
of
happens
that
fuch
children
from
the
judge
of
and
render
the
marriage
null
and
as
in
meet
of
her
hufband,
to
bring
herfelf
advantages
his wife, or to
guardian of
her own
children, nor
pens, that a
French and
yet the condition
in
their
a
feparate
property
is
allowed
to
efpoufe
fubjeds, to enable
frequently
ftretched
into
the
there
are
fome
of
any
crime
within
to
her
own
firft
title,
and
the
privi-
leges
annexed
fuch-a-
one,
of
her
territorial
diftrift
confequence
of
taking
By
our
of the
punifhing
the
to
counterad
the
exorbitance
caufe,
in
cafes
of
afTault,
is
not
by
the
law
to a
demned
for
to admit of no evidence, and as, the man is
fuppofed
to
have
for
a
woman
to
be
able
to
oblige
v/hoever
fhe
him
the
power
of
exculpating
himfelf
and
elders
to
give
mar-
ried
unmarried,
ill ufage,
have
taken
CHAP.
the
moft
effedlual
method
of
fecuring
king's
a man's
wife in
himfelf, and
repel
force
by
orders the fentence
as advantageous
have been
reflore
them.
But
the
law
her
from
the
punifhment
of her, are
crime
is
child
that
he
may,
if
he
pleafes,
pay-
flefli,
and
blended
the hufband
of his female vaflal,
uncommon thing,
the
laws
which they
difcretion
of
her
hufband;
no
fortune,
when,
through
a
fociety,
bed and
board, although
high-treafon is entitled
Before
marriage-fettlements
was the
only fecurity
endow. When he
as
gave
birth
for her labour
of
their
money.
Befides
the
dotal
law,
No
widow
can
be
en-
dowed
dower
if
the
deceafed
left
a
leaves
a
wi-
cannot
be
touched
by
the
creditors
ent
ftate
father
chafte
and
cuftom
long
of their
heirs,
places, are exceptions
right of inheritance
from the in-
for
goods
her
return,
a
court
of
equity
will
hufband
denies.
The
power
and
denying
her
an adtion for
nor
any
way
but
in
his
name;
if,
realm, or
is banifhed
from it,
and
authority.
When
a
hufband
and
wife
are
have
the
outlawry
confidered only as
us
alive,
his
bowels
taken
obliging
the
woman
who
murders
her
hufband
is
only
;
at
the
punifhable
by
death
delinquent to
fliall add an
by the
the real
heir at
concerning
wi-
death
of
if
that
enter
upon
his
eftate
houfe,
with the
a widow
of
the
ladies
i8x
Conjafguinity,
him
Delilah
148
m.
by
fighting
to
procure
a
bride
150
m-
daughters
in
marriage
withoutconfentoftbeir
lords
338
ornament
and
drefs
g6
in
cafes
of
in
adultery
326
are
law
of
England
249
were
Law,
them
257
confidering
it
as
riage
324
fta'.e
than
women
220

115
women
with
210
cere-
monies
allowed
them 211
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1
Vol.
II.
Roman
women,

box
108
the
69
and
Levant ibid.
oned
to
at Calcutta,
to
eflates
337
c
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