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As female chaftity, at fird fight, feemed to be held in no great eftimation, we expefted to have found frequent breaches of their conjugal fidelity; but we did them great injuftice.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

They aic all under a vow of celibacy and chaftity j and yet ihey niake no Ici uple vf taking Grecian women for miitiellls.

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland 1797

This, great man, after a long and healthy life, jthe conl'equencc of his chaftity, fobriety, and temperance, $ed

A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the ... 1795

"Sine vefte Dianam" agree better with Livia, who had the fame of chaftity, than with either of the Julia's, who were both noted of incontinency.

The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795

Many Gre - cian ladies haye. been celebrated. for an at - tachment to philofophical ftudies: and 1 'concluded that, in the lift of thefe, I ftiould find feveral individuals, who in chaftity as well as learning* yffett the faithful votaries of Minerva.

A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids 1793

We learn froni Dugdale, diat in the reign of Henry the Second, the nuns of Amfbury abbey io Wiltfhire were expeUed from that religious hoyfe, on account of their incon - tinence t i aiid, to exhibit in the moft lively colours the total corruption of monaftic chaftity, Bifhop Burnet informs us, in his Hiftory of the Reformation, that when the nunneries were vifited by the comipand qf

A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids 1793

He dwells on the peculiar perils that belong to each 5 and explains how the gratification of her palate, though apparandy innocent, may infenfibly lead her to the lofs of her chaftity ..

A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids 1793

He exhorts them to avoid public baths and nuptial feafts; he feliciutes them on their efcaping the curie of child-birth; and encourages them to perievere in their chaftity, by an aflur - ance, that | heir lank is glorious, and that the purit/of a virgin approaches very near

A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids 1793

It is furprifing, then, that we are not as famous for our chaftity as for our courage.

Travels into Norway, Denmark, and Russia, in the years 1788, 1789, 1790, and 1791 1792

The feverc commiffion of chaftity ♦ condemned theni one and aS to

Popular tales of the Germans [selected from J.C.A. Musaeus] tr. [by W. Beckford]. 1791