The Men Of Business Are Domestic Tyrants, Coldly Immersed In Their
Own Affairs, And So Ignorant Of The State Of Other Countries, That
They Dogmatically Assert That Denmark Is The Happiest Country In The
World; The Prince Royal The Best Of All Possible Princes; And Count
Bernstorff The Wisest Of Ministers.
As for the women, they are simply notable housewives; without
accomplishments or any of the charms that adorn more advanced social
life.
This total ignorance may enable them to save something in
their kitchens, but it is far from rendering them better parents.
On the contrary, the children are spoiled, as they usually are when
left to the care of weak, indulgent mothers, who having no principle
of action to regulate their feelings, become the slaves of infants,
enfeebling both body and mind by false tenderness.
I am, perhaps, a little prejudiced, as I write from the impression
of the moment; for I have been tormented to-day by the presence of
unruly children, and made angry by some invectives thrown out
against the maternal character of the unfortunate Matilda. She was
censured, with the most cruel insinuation, for her management of her
son, though, from what I could gather, she gave proofs of good sense
as well as tenderness in her attention to him. She used to bathe
him herself every morning; insisted on his being loosely clad; and
would not permit his attendants to injure his digestion by humouring
his appetite. She was equally careful to prevent his acquiring
haughty airs, and playing the tyrant in leading-strings.
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