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116 do philoophical men complain of their ficklenes? The exual attention of man particularly acts on female enibility, and this ympathy has been exercied from their youth up. A huband cannot long pay thoe attentions with the paion neceary to excite lively emotions, and the heart, accutomed to lively emotions, turns to a new lover, or pines in ecret, the prey of virtue or prudence. I mean when the heart has really been rendered uceptible, and the tate formed; for I am apt to conclude, from what I have een in fahionable life, that vanity is oftener fotered than enibility by the mode of education, and the intercoure between the exes, which I have reprobated; and that coquetry more frequently proceeds from vanity than from that incontancy, which overtrained enibility naturally produces.

Another argument that has had a great weight with me, mut, I think, have ome force with every coniderate, benevolent heart. Girls who have been thus weakly educated, are often cruelly left by their parents without any proviion; and, of coure, are dependent on, not only the reaon, but the bounty of their brothers. Thee brothers are, to view the fairet ide of the quetion, good ort of men, and give as a favour, what children of the ame parents had an equal right to. In this equivocal humiliating ituation, a docile female may remain ome time, with a tolerable degree of comfort. But, when the brother marries, a probable circumtance, from being conidered as the mitres of the family, he is viewed with averted looks as an intruder, an unneceary burden&ensp;