 | 1836 - 330 pages
...himself. Dr. Samuel Collins, physician to the tsar about 1670, consoles his readers with the intelligence that the custom of tying up wives by the hair of the head, and flogging them "begins to be left off." This, however, he accounts for by the prudence of the parents, who make it a provision in the marriage... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1836 - 376 pages
...himself. Dr. Samuel Collins, physician to the tsar about 1670, consoles his readers with the intelligence that the custom of tying up wives by the hair of the head, and flogging them "begins to be left off." This, however, he accounts for by the prudence of the parents, who make it a provision in the marriage... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1836 - 376 pages
...himself. Dr. Samuel Collins, physician to the tsar about 1670, consoles his readers with the intelligence that the custom of tying up wives by the hair of the head, and flogging them "begins to be left off." This, however, he accounts for by the prudence of the parents, who make it a provision in the marriage... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1836 - 210 pages
...insidious plan lurked under it, he endeavoured to excuse himself. soles his readers with the intelligence that the custom of tying up wives by the hair of the...head, and flogging them " begins to be left off." This, however, he accounts for by the prudence of the parents, who make it a provision in the marriage... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 566 pages
...feathers make fine birds ;' but look back a little, ye dashing cavaliers and supercilious ladies ! In the latter part of the seventeenth century, a French...daughters were not to be whipped, struck, kicked, etc. But even in this improved state of society, one man ' put upon his wife a shirt dipped in ardent... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 564 pages
...after.'* Dr. Collins, physician to the Czar in 1670, as an evidence of the progress of cirilization in Russia, says, that the custom of tying up wives...daughters were not to be whipped, struck, kicked, etc. But even in this improved state of society, one man ' put upon his wife a shirt dipped in ardent... | |
 | 1839 - 430 pages
...treat their wives as a necessary evil, regarding them with a proud and stern eye, and even boating them after.' Dr. Collins, physician to the Czar in...daughters were not to be whipped, struck, kicked, etc. B>ii eren in this Improved state of society, oiia man ' put upon his wife a shirt dipped in ardent... | |
 | Samuel Irenæus Prime - 1873 - 522 pages
...people were only a little removed from barbarism. Dr. Collins, physician to the Czar, says in 1670, "the custom of tying up wives by the hair of the head and flogging them, begins to be left off." It was certainly time, though it was two hundred years ago. No traces of that ancient custom remain.... | |
 | 1869 - 804 pages
...regarding them with a proud and stern eye, and even beating them." A physician to the Czar in 1070 says, that the custom of tying up wives by the hair of the head, and flogging them, began to be left off. He tries to account for this by the marriage contracts between parents and the... | |
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... them after.'* Dr. Collins, physician to the Czar in 1670, as an evidence of the progress of civilization in Russia, says, that the custom of tying up wives by the hair of the head, and flogging them, begins to be left off... 