The Spectator, No. 433 (17 July 17 1712) [ Concepts ]
… Nature, without troubling him with any Enquiries about the Author of it. It contains a summary Account of two different States which bordered upon one another. The one was a Commonwealth of Amazons , or Women without Men; the other was a Republick of Males that had not a Woman in their whole Community. As these two States bordered upon one another, it was their way, it seems, to meet upon their Frontiers at a certain Season of the … about a Week, the Commonwealths were recruited from time to time, and supplied with their respective Subjects. These two States were engaged together in a perpetual League, Offensive and Defensive, so that if any Foreign Potentate offered to …
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