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Rh his own preence, no other virtue, it eems, appeared to have any merit. Knowledge, indutry, valour, and beneficence, trembled, were abahed, and lot all dignity before them.'

Woman alo thus 'in herelf complete,' by poeing all thee frivolous accomplihments, o changes the nature of things

And all this is built on her lovelines!

In the middle rank of life, to continue the comparion, men, in their youth, are prepared for profeions, and marriage is not conidered as the grand feature in their lives; whilt women, on the contrary, have no other cheme to harpen their faculties. It is not buines, extenive plans, or any of the excurive flights of ambition, that engros their attention; no, their thoughts are not employed in rearing uch noble tructures. To rie in the world, and have the liberty of running from pleaure to pleaure, they mull marry advantageouly, and to this object their time is acrificed, and their perons often legally protituted. A man when he enters any profeion has his eye teadily fixed on ome future advantage (and the mind gains great trength by having all its efforts directed to one point) and, full of his buines, pleaure is conidered as mere relaxation; whilt women eek for pleaure as the main purpoe of exigence, In fact, from the education, which&ensp;