The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Henry Thomas Buckle
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-03-23
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780365363217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, Vol. 2 of 2 Mannered than the heroines of Fletcher.' Bourgoingl says that Paederasty 'est absolument inconnue en Espagne.' T ownsend2 says in regard to Spanish women having lovers or cortejes, that it was owing 'to the introduction of Italian manners, on the arrival of Charles III. From Naples, with the previous want of reasonable freedom in the commerce of the sexes.' Mary Carpenter says,3 'all persons who have come much into actual intercourse with boys and girls of the perishing and dangerous classes have fully agreed with my own experience, that the girls are far the most hardened and difficult to manage. A strong concurrent testimony of this was presented to me yesterday by one of the Commissioners of Lunacy, who had been himself for a long course of years the manager of a large institution. The females he found infinitely more outrageous than the males and, when excited, they used language indicating a depth and intensity of wickedness which he would not have thought the heart of a man, still less, as he said, that Of a woman, could have conceived.' Baretti, who was in Spain in 1760, says with surprise, that Spaniards are not jealous.' See also on the cortejos, who are said to be quite innocent, vol. Iii. Pp. 102 - 111. Baretti says,5 'in Calderon's days it was not per mitted to men to act upon the stage, so that men's characters were then acted by women; and it is but of late years that the Spaniards have Obtained this permission, I cannot tell whether by the Government or the Inquisition. See the whims of nations! 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.
