CUSTOMS. AND CEREMONIES, OF THE NATIONS OF THE UNIVERSE. By Lady Augusta Hamilton. LONDON: PRINTED BY AND FOR J. SMITH, CROSS-STREET, NEWINGTON BUTTS. A Spanish Cavalier serenading his Mistress. Tut by J. Smith & Cellitch Fla. Crep St Newington Butts. O CUSTOMS. AND CEREMONIES, OF THE NATIONS OF THE UNIVERSE. By Lady Augusta Hamilton. LONDON: PRINTED BY AND FOR J. SMITH, CROSS-STREET, NEWINGTON BUTTS. PREFACE. WOMEN form so prominent a feature in the history of the universe, that whatever respects their various ranks and conditions must be important and entertaining. They have been endowed with the possession of the milder virtues, and claim the protection of the stronger sex, whose legislators, in proportion as they have adopted a more liberal and enlightened policy, have raised them to their just rank in society. Philosophically considered, there is but little inequality in the conditions of the two sexes. They are born, sustained, and die in the Education makes a distinction, which is connected with the domestic duties to which the physical state of women is peculiarly liable. The superior force of the male is rather muscular than internal, since the average of longevities, where the impulses of nature are not prematurely for same manner. |