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Rh the grap, whoe mind has not been opened and trengthened by adverity, or the puruit of knowledge goaded on by neceity?—Happy is it when people have the cares of life to truggle with; for thee truggles prevent their becoming a prey to enervating vices, merely from idlenes! But, if from their birth men and women are placed in a torrid zone, with the meridian un of pleaure darting directly upon them, how can they ufficiently brace their minds to dicharge the duties of life, or even to relih the affections that carry them out of themelves?

Pleaure is the buines of woman's life, according to the preent modification of ociety, and while it continues to be o, little can be expected from uch weak beings. Inheriting, in a lineal decent from the firt fair defect in nature, the overeignty of beauty, they have, to maintain their power, reigned the natural rights, which the exercie of reaon might have procured them, and choen rather to be hort-lived queens than labour to obtain the ober pleaures that arie from equality. Exalted by their inferiority (this ounds like a contradiction) they contantly demand homage as women, though experience hould teach them that the men who pride themelves upon paying this arbitrary inolent repect to the ex, with the mot crupulous exactness, are mot inclined to tyrannize over, and depie, the very weaknes they cherih. Often do they repeat Mr. Hume's entiments; when, comparing the French and Athenian character, he alludes to women. 'But what is more ingular in this whimical nation, ay I to the Athenians, Rh