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Beailly appetite of their paramours, who did not difdain them, though manners: 

 the poor vid:im. flood c trembling before them, and was dilTolved in. 



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The barbarian knows hardly any law; the fup 



ority of power decides every thing y it is therefore no v/onder that* 

 hefhould extend his tyrannical fway over the weaker fex, and being' 



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himfelf 'a flranger. to the more tenderfeelings of love^ he is of courfe 

 equally ignorant of the ideas o£ modejiy,. bafifulnefs, or delicacy '•y 



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niihes the tranfgreffion of his commands on that head with great 

 feverity; it is not from the above principles, but in order to alTert. 

 his right of property and dominion over her ,; for he would freely. ad- 

 mit any flranger to his wife's embraces, if the equivalent for it were. 



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ta his liking, . or if prompted 

 could fatisfyhis caprice or whim.. 



In O-Taheitee, the Society, the Friendly Ifles, and the Marque- 

 fas, the fair fex is already raifed to a greater equality, with the men 5 



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and if,, from no other reafon^ from this alon$. we might be allowed 

 to pronounce,,, that, thefe iflanders have.emerged from the. ftate of 

 favages, and ought to be ranked one remove above barbarians. For 



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the more the women are.efleemed in a nation, and enjoy an equality 



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of rights with the men,, the more it appears that the original harfli- 

 nefs of manners is foftened, the more the people are. capable often- 

 der feelings, mutual attachment^ and focial virtues, which natu- 



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