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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. 1845 edition. Excerpt: ...who awake in the morning and find silver sixpences in their shoes, placed by the same invisible hands. Scotland has produced several women of great talent, whose writings are generally characterized by sound good sense, and accurate observation of human nature. It is a. singular circumstance that so gallant a na-(ion as the French should exclude women from the throne, while the ungallant English have a strong predilection for the government of queens. The aa-cient Franks preferred kings, on account of the continual wars in which they were engaged; and a good deal of difficulty having arisen concerning a succes sion to the crown, after the death of Lewis Hutin, it was solemnly and deliberately decreed that all females should be excluded; and this decree remains to the present day unreversed. Yet there is probably no country in the world where women exert such an active political influence as in France. Under the regency of Anne of Austria, they obtained an ascendency which they have never since lost. According to cardinal de Ret?, a revolution in the heart of a woman at that time often produced a revolution in public affairs; and the profligate Louis the Fifteenth was notoriously governed by his mistresses. The Comtesse Champagne, when she presided at one of the Courts of Love, during the age of chivalry, solemnly decided that true love could not exist between a married pair; and it was the received maxim of those courts in Provence, that being married was no legitimate reason against returning the passion of a lover. To this day, the French have a singular code of morals upon this subject; yet those who know them well, say they are quite as good, if not a little better than their more decorous neighbors. It is difficult to make fair...
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- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 0217910661
- ISBN 13 9780217910668
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine76
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