Sketches of the history, genius, disposition, accomplishments, employments, customs and importance of the fair sex, in all parts of the world : interspersed with many singular and entertaining anecdotes / by a friend to the sex.
- Date:
- [1796?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sketches of the history, genius, disposition, accomplishments, employments, customs and importance of the fair sex, in all parts of the world : interspersed with many singular and entertaining anecdotes / by a friend to the sex. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
32/308
![following effect. Thus, after her death, is a prof- titute honoured ; while not one of thofe brave war- riors who fell in Alia, fighting for you and for the fafety of Greece, has fo much as a Hone erccled to his memory, or an infcription to preferve his afhes from infult. Such was the homage which that enthufiaftic people, voluptuous and paflionate, paid to beauty. More guided by fentiment than by reafon, and having laws rather than principles, they banifhed their great men, honoured their courtezans, murdered Socrates, permitted themfelves to be governed by Afpafia, pre- ferred inviolate the marriage-bed, and placed Phrine ia the temple of Apollo ! CHAP. VIII. OF THE ROMAN WOMEN. AMONG the Romans, a grave and aullere peo- ple, who, during five hundred years, were unac- quainted with the elegancies and the pleafures of life, and who, in the middle of furrows and fields of bat- tle, were employed in tillage or in war, the man- ners of the women were a long time as folemn and fe- vere as thofe of the men, and without the fmallefl; mixture of corruption, or of weaknefs. The time when the Roman women began to appear in public, marks a particular «ra in hillory. In the infancy of the city, and even until the eon- <]ueft of Carthage, (hut up in their houfes, where a fim- ple and ruftic virtue paid every thing to initincl, and nothing to elegance—fo nearly allied to barbarifm, as only to know what it was to be wives and mothers chaile](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21121072_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
