The Rational Amusement Author:John Campbell Subtitle: Comprehending a Collection of Letters on a Great Variety of Subjects, Serious, Entertaining, Moral, Diverting, and Instructive. Interspersed With Essays, and Some Little Pieces of History ... General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1754 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Hodges Subjects: English letters L... more »iterary Collections / Letters Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Science / Life Sciences / Biochemistry Science / Life Sciences / Biology / Molecular Biology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Women are employ'd in making their Cloaths, Cheefe, and fuch like, for as to dreffing of Meat that as well as taking it, belongs to the Men. Ex- cept Drinking, they have few Vices, and thole they have they have learn'd from Strangers, for whom they have fuch a Deference, that they think all Things right they do. Of late Years the Swedes have civiliz'd, which includes fubject- ing the Laplanders, much more than formerly; and very probably, in Procefs of Time, they will make ftill greater Alterations; yet whatever is done muft be flowly and gently, for if a Laplander is vex'd, he changes his Country without the Formality of an AcT; of Naturalization; and this is one Reafon why they are fo kindly dealt. with. As to any Government amongft themfelves, there is none, fave that which fome People are fo fond of, I mean the Patriarchal. Every Father of a Family is the . Prince of it from the Moment he becomes a Parent to the laf t of his Life; all his Sons are his Servants, and fo are his Sons-in-law fora Year; neither is this little Sovereignty without its Cares and Jealoufies; infomuch, that fometimes a Laplander, through an extreme Defire of preferving hi...« less