Excerpt from The History of Women, From the Earliest Antiquity, to the Present Time, Vol. 1 of 2: Giving Some Account of Almost Every Interesting Particular Concerning That Sex, Among All Nations, Ancient and Modern Lthougi - I there is nothing in nature that fo much en gages our attention, fo forcibly draws our inclinations, or with which our interefis are fo intimately blended, as with the other fex, yet f0 firong is our partiality to ourfelves, that we have never in any period, nor in any country, fufficiently attended to the happinefs and interef'ts of thofe beings, whom in every pe riod, and in every country, we have profelfed to love and to adore: and while the charms which they poffefs, have every where ex torted from us the tribute of love, they have only in a few places extorted from us good ufage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.