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50 Thoe productions which give a wrong account of the human paions, and the various accidents of life, ought not to be read before the judgment is formed, or at leat exercied. Such accounts are one great caue of the affectation of young women. Senibility is decribed and praied, and the effects of it repreented in a way o different from nature, that thoe who imitate it mut make themelves very ridiculous. A fale tate is acquired, and enible books appear dull and inipid after thoe uperficial performances, which obtain their full end if they can keep the mind in a continual ferment. Gallantry is made the only intereting ubject