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Rh, take up her attention. Of coure, he falls a prey to childih anger, and illy capricious humors, which render her rather inignificant than vicious.

In a comfortable ituation, a cultivated mind is neceary to render a woman contented; and in a mierable one, it is her only conolation. A enible, delicate woman, who by ome trange accident, or mitake, is joined to a fool or a brute, mut be wretched beyond all names of wretchednes, if her views are confined to the preent cene. Of what importance, then, is intellectual improvement, when our com-