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Rh to. Though it is not eay to ay how a peron hould act under the immediate influence of paion, yet they certainly have no excue who are actuated only by vanity, and deceive by an equivocal behaviour in order to gratify it. There are quite as many male coquets as female, and they are far more pernicious pets to ociety, as their phere of action is larger, and they are les expoed to the cenure of the world. A mothered igh, downcat look, and the many other little arts which are played off, may give extreme pain to a incere, artles woman, though he cannot reent, or complain of,