Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World. / To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress.
TO WHICH ARE ADDED RULES FOR DETERMINING
THE PRECISE FIGURE, THE DEGREE OF BEAUTY, THE HABITS, AND THE AGE
NOTWITHSTANDING THE AIDS AND DISGUISE OF DRESS.
BOSTON: THEODORE ABBOT, 388 WASHINGTON ST.
1841.
It is our design to present a pleasing and interesting miscellany, which will serve to beguile the leisure hour, and will at the same time couple instruction with amusement. We have used but little method in the arrangement: Choosing rather to furnish the reader with a rich profusion of narratives and anecdotes, all tending to illustrate the
FEMALE CHARACTER,
to display its delicacy, its sweetness, its gentle or sometimes heroic virtues, its amiable weaknesses, and strange defects—than to attempt an accurate analysis of the hardest subject man ever attempted to master, viz—WOMAN.
“Oh! blest with temper whose unclouded ray
Can make tomorrow cheerful as to-day:
She who can love a sister’s charms, or hear
Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear;
Anonymous
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THE FIRST WOMAN, AND HER ANTEDILUVIAN DESCENDANTS.
WOMAN IN THE PATRIARCHAL AGES.
PERSIAN WOMEN.
GRECIAN WOMEN.
LAWS AND CUSTOMS RESPECTING THE ROMAN WOMEN.
WOMAN IN SAVAGE LIFE.
CHINESE WOMAN.
GREAT ENTERPRISES OF WOMEN IN THE TIMES OF CHIVALRY.
OTHER PARTICULARS RESPECTING FEMALES DURING THE AGE OF CHIVALRY.
FRENCH WOMEN.
ITALIAN WOMEN.
SPANISH WOMEN.
ENGLISH WOMEN.
RUSSIAN WOMEN.
THE IDEA OF FEMALE INFERIORITY.
FEMALE SIMPLICITY.
THE MILD MAGNANIMITY OF WOMEN.
INFLUENCE OF FEMALE SOCIETY.
MONASTIC LIFE.
DEGREES OF SENTIMENTAL ATTACHMENT AT DIFFERENT PERIODS.
GERMAN WOMEN.
BETROTHING AND MARRIAGE.
FEMALE FRIENDSHIP.
A LETTER TO A NEW MARRIED MAN.
DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT CONVENT AT AJUDA IN RIO JANERIO.
CEREMONY OF THE INITIATION OF A NUN.
ITALIAN DEBAUCHERY.
MAHOMETAN PLURALITY OF WIVES.
WOMEN OF OTAHEITE.
CUSTOM IN THE MOGUL EMPIRE.
CUSTOM OF THE MUSCOVITES.
SALE OF CHILDREN TO PURCHASE WIVES.
POLYGAMY AND CONCUBINAGE.
EUNUCHS.
PUNISHMENT OF ADULTERY.
ANECDOTE OF CÆSAR.
POWER OF MARRYING.
CELIBACY OF THE CLERGY.
GRECIAN COURTSHIP.
POWER OF PHILTRES AND CHARMS.
EASTERN COURTSHIP.
LONG HAIR OF SAXONS AND DANES.
ST. VALENTINE’S DAY.
COURTS OF LOVE.
IMMODESTY AT BABYLON.
INDECENCY AT ADRIANOPLE.
LAPLAND AND GREENLAND LADY.
EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN ASIA AND AFRICA.
RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS OF THE GREEKS.
THE DEATHS OF LUCRETIA AND VIRGINIA.
ON LOOKING AT THE PICTURE OF A BEAUTIFUL FEMALE.
OF FIGURE.
OF BEAUTY.
OF MIND.
OF AGE.