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Rh of reaon above opinion, dared to be proud of the privileges inherent in man? And it is vain to expect it whilt hereditary power chokes the affections and nips reaon in the bud.

The paions of men have thus placed women on thrones, and, till mankind become more reaonable, it is to be feared that women will avail themelves of the power which they attain with the leat exertion, and which is the mot indiputable. They will mile,—yes, they will mile, though told that—

But the adoration comes firt, and the corn is not anticipated.

Lewis the XIVth, in particular, pread factitious manners, and caught, in a pecious way, the whole nation in his toils; for, etablihing an artful chain of depotim, he made it the interet of the people at large, individually to repect his tation and upport his power. And women, whom he flattered by a puerile attention to the whole ex, obtained in his reign that prince-like ditinction o fatal to reaon and virtue.

A king is always a king—and a woman always a woman : his authority and her ex, ever tand between them and rational convere. With a lover, I grant, he hould be o, and her enibility will naturally lead her to endeavour to excite emotion, not to gratify her vanity, but her Rh