We are no sooner come together than we throw off all that Modesty and Reservedness with which our Sex are obliged to disguise themselves in publick Places.
Upon my coming home, I settled to my Studies so heartily, and contracted so great a Reservedness by being kept from the Company I most affected, that my Father thought he might venture me at the Temple.
As I am informed the same Reservedness is practis'd in Spain, and Italy: And that there is no Theatre in Europe excepting the English, that entertains the Audience with Priests.
Freedom was then thought too much for the Reservednessof a Maiden-Character.
Euripides approv'd thisReservedness and makes his Electra practise it upon the same occasion.
Among such a people, a man may long live, little known, and less instructed; for their reservedness renders them uncommunicative, and their excessive haughtiness prevents them from being solicitous of knowledge.
When people find, as they will find, a reservedness among each other in giving gold and silver for bank notes, or the least preference for the former over the latter, they will go for payment to the bank, where they have a right to go.
