Volume 1

History of the female sex; comprising a view of the habits, manners, and influence of women, among all nations, from the earliest ages to the present time / Translated from the German of C. Meiners. By Frederic Shoberl.

  • Christoph Meiners
Date:
1808
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Credit: History of the female sex; comprising a view of the habits, manners, and influence of women, among all nations, from the earliest ages to the present time / Translated from the German of C. Meiners. By Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■»TSTOHY or l?,o8 to tlie view of strangers as little as possi- ble ; that she shonld take care of what llie hiisband acquired, and ex])end it with friigality ; that she should pay rnaternal attention to the vouiiwr children of both sexes, and kcep an incessantly vvatchlul eye upon her grown~up daughters. No. house,” says Socrates, or his friend, Vk hom he regarded as a pattem for all fathers of families, “ can suhsist, in which the ac- quisitions of industry are not kept toge- ther and distributed with economy, Na- ture has, therefore, endowed the man and the woman with such qualities and facul- ties as wdll, if w^ell einployed, conduce to tlie attaininent of both objects. The husband is incontestably adapted to those occupations which must he performed Iie is endued with strength and ability to endure heat and cold, the fa- ticraes of travelling, of a inilitary life, and the labours of tlie field, and courage to defend his wife, his children, and his pro- perty, from eneinies and dangers. 'lo the woinan, on the other hand, Providence bas denied strength, courage, and the power to bear fatigue, and has implanted in her bosom rnaternal tenderness towards her new-born offspring; and, by this Con- stitution of her nature, w'eak and timid
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