...In despotic countries, such as Palestine and Syria, Mr. Emerson tells us that the situation of women is in no degree removed from the classification originally...equally defended from the covetousness of his neighbour. Is it better in England, where the commentator on Blackstone tells, "that husband and wife, in the...

...Syria, the disgusting series attains its acmé of abhorrent developement ; and the situation of females is in no degree removed from the classification originally...equally defended from the covetousness of his neighbour. || In the mass this estimate * See vol. xp 235. f See vol. ¡xp 298, 322, &c. Î See vol. xp 47. §...