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100. If they have a tolerable undertanding, it has a chance to be cultivated. They are forced to ee human nature as it is, and are not left to dwell on the pictures of their own imaginations. Nothing, I am ure, calls forth the faculties o much as the being obliged to truggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married tate. Her phere of action is not large, and if he is not taught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and puruits! What little arts engros and narrow her mind! "Cunning fills up the mighty void of ene," and cares, which do not improve the heart or dertand