 | John Fanning Watson - 1830 - 902 strani
...regarded as virtues ; anil the present freedom before the aged was not then countenanced. Young lovers then listened and took side-long glances when before their parents or elders. Mrs. Susan N , who lived to be 80 years of age, told me it 'This is manifest by numerous publications... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1833 - 336 strani
...regarded as virtues; and the present freedom before the aged was not then countenanced. Young lovers then listened and took side-long glances, when before their parents or elders. Mrs. SN , who lived to be eighty years of age, told me it was the custom of her early days for the... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1855 - 686 strani
...regarded as virtues; and the present freedom before the nged was not then countenanced. Young lovers then listened and took side-long glances when before their parents or elders. Mrs. Susan N , who lived to be SO years of age, told me it was the custom of her early days for the... | |
 | JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871 - 1164 strani
...regarded as virtues ; and the present freedom before the aged was not then countenanced. Young lovers then listened and took sidelong glances, when before their parents or elders. It was the custom for the younger part of the family, and especially of the female part, to dress up... | |
 | 1892 - 734 strani
...Pa., Vol. 1, p. 345. succeeding century, when this publication was merged with another periodical. There are certain constant factors in almost every...terrestrial globe. At the time, however, of which we write, bashful ness and modesty in youth were regarded as ornaments, nay even as great virtues. " Young lovers,"... | |
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... testify, that the young of their youth were much more reserved, and held under much more restraint in the presence of their elders and parents, than now. Bashfulness and modesty in the young were then regarded as virtues; and the present freedom before... 