Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 edition. Excerpt: ... will give away the infant of which his wife is with child, as soon as it is born. Upon the birth of the infant, he. sends it to some man whom he has chosen to be its adopted parent, where it meets with all those attentions denied by its natural father. A nurse is provided, and every care taken of the infant. These children are called the sons or daughters of smoke; and it frequently happens that a goodnatured man, who has no children of his own, will have a dozen in this manner imposed upon him. This is certainly one of the most extraordinary circumstances to be met with in history; nor can it be accounted for either on political or natural principles, as a father, who exposes his own child, will perhaps adopt the children of others. GERMANY, SWEDEN, fyc. Formerly among the Northern nations in general, the females were treated with a degree of respect and confidence unknown among the Southern states, and, so high was their opinion of the judgment and discretion of their women, that they were very frequently consulted upon state affairs.--The ancient Germans carried their respect for the fair sex so far, that the fine for baring the arm of a free women against her wish was fifteen shillings, as much as for cutting off the fiBger of a man; and if a man had the temerity to touch her bosom, he was fined forty shillings, as much as for cutting off the nose or three fingers of a warrior. A kiss snatched from a female was punished with exile; if with her consent, but without the knowledge of her husband or brother, be was fined three marks of silver. But if they were thus solicitous to guard their females from insult, and any improper or licentious liberty, they were still more severe towards them if they violated their marriage vow, and they...
