...Berlin is a town where, if fortis may be construed honest, there is neither vir fortis nee faemina casta. A total corruption of morals reigns throughout...characters. The men are constantly occupied how to make shortened means support the extravagances of their life. The women are harpies, debauched through want...

...Berlin is a town where, if "fortis" may be construed honest, there is neither "Vir fortis nee foemina casta." A total corruption of morals reigns throughout...men are constantly occupied how to make straightened means support the extravagances of their life. The women are harpies, debauched through want of modesty,...

...a town, where, \tfortis may be construed honest, there is neither ' fir for I it nee famina caita.' A total corruption of morals reigns throughout both sexes in every class of life, joined to penuriousncss. necessarily caused partly by the oppression of his present Majesty, and partly by the...

...Malmesbury, dated Berlin, 1 773 : — " No place can be worse for the comforts of social life than Berlin. A total corruption of morals reigns throughout both...grandfather, constituting the worst of human characters." 5 This, indeed, is only what the general laws of human nature would lead us to expect as the invariable...

...Berlin is a town where, \ifortis may be construed ' honest,' there is neither vir fortis nee ftemina casta. A total corruption of morals reigns throughout...characters. The men are constantly occupied how to make straitened means support the extravagances of their life. The women are harpies, debauched through...

...women. " The men," he wrote, " were entirely military, uninformed on every other subject. . . . 36 A total corruption of morals reigns throughout both sexes in every class of life." * And if Malmesbury's views were a little coloured by his anti- Prussian bias — not unnatural considering...

..." Berlin is a town where, if fortis may be construed honest, there is neither mr fortis nee famina. casta. A total corruption of morals reigns throughout both sexes in every class of life. The women are harpies debauched through want of modesty rather than from want of anything else. They...