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370  in which she points out their different excellencies, with good success.

Madame de Saint Germain was born at Paris, and lived there, greatly respected by persons of learning and condition. She seems, in respect to her disposition, very unlike the generality of her countrywomen, being rather of a melancholy contemplative turn, and consequently fond of retirement.

Her writings abound with sentiment and good sense. I find only the title of one of them in Mrs. Thicknesse; Henry and Emilia.

mother, a lady of piety, gave her all the advantages of a liberal education; and the quick advances she made in knowledge, were an ample recompence for all the care and pains taken with her. Her reading and observations were extraordinary; for she had considered the human passions, with unusual penetration and accuracy of judgment; and laid such a substantial foundation for her conduct in life, as would have made her a shining example of every Christian virtue; but she died early, though not unprepared, and was buried in Westminster abbey; on the south side of which, is erected to her memory a beautiful monument of black and white marble.

She wrote, and left behind her, in loose papers, a work