The Telegraph

Women less courted than formerly.--A few centuries ago women were scarcely accessible, but shut up in houses and castles, living retired from the bustle of the world. When they deigned to show themselves, they were approached as divinities. A transient view of them often set the heart on fire; and their smiles conferred a happiness, and raised on enthusiastic ardour, of which at this period we can hardly form an idea. - By degrees, as manners became more free, and the sexes mixed together with the less ceremony, women began to be seen with less trepidation, approached with less diffidence, and sunk in their value as they became objects of great familiarity,

Nor was this peculiar to the times we are delineating, the same effect has and always will happen from the
same cause.--Let the female sex therefore, learn this instructive lesson from it, that half the esteem and veneration the men show them, is owing to their modesty and reserve, and that a contrary conduct may make the most enchanting goddess degenerate in men's eyes, to a mere woman with all the frailties of mortality.--The forward beauty whose face is known in every walk and in every public place, may be given as a toast, and have her name inscribed on the windows of the tavern; but she rarely ever becomes an object of esteem, or is solicited to become a partner for life.