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118 late prior duties. She would wih not to love him merely becaue he loved her, but on account of his virtues; and the iter might have been able to truggle for herelf intead of eating the bitter bread of dependence.

I am, indeed, peruaded that the heart, as well as the undertanding, is opened by cultivation ; and by, which may not appear o clear, trengthening the organs; I am not now talking of momentary flahes of enibility, but of affections. And, perhaps, in the education of both exes, the mot difficult tak is o to adjut intruction as not to narrow the undertanding, whilt the heart is warmed by the generous juices of pring, jut raied by the electric fermentation of the eaon; nor to dry up the feelings by employing the mind in invetigations remote from life.

With repect to women, when they receive a careful education, they are either made fine ladies, brimful of enibility, and teeming with capricious fancies; or mere notable women. The latter are often friendly, honet creatures, and have a hrewd kind of good ene joined with worldly prudence, that often render them more ueful members of ociety than the fine entimental lady, though they poes neither greatnes of mind nor tate. The intellectual world is hut againt them; take them out of their family or neighbourhood, and they tand till; the mind finding no employment, for literature affords a fund of amuement which they have never ought to relih, but frequently to depie. The entiments and tate of more cultivated minds appear ridiculous, even in thoe whom chance and family&ensp;