With men it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the plains of
inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and
churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the widespread regions of the
wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet, or sick, woman has ever
been friendly to me, and uniformly so: and, to add to this virtue, so
worthy of the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been
performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank
the sweet draught, and, if hungry, ate the coarse morsel with a double
relish." Woman may read