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120 her jut reward; for the wages due to her are the carees of her huband; and women who have o few reources in themelves, do not very patiently bear this privation of a natural right.

A fine lady, on the contrary, has been taught to look down with contempt on the vulgar employments of life; though he has only been incited to acquire accomplihments that rie a degree above ene; for even corporeal accomplihments cannot be acquired with any degree of preciion unles the undertanding has been trengthened by exercie. Without a foundation of principles tate is uperficial; and grace mut arie from omething deeper than imitation. The imagination, however, is heated, and the feelings rendered fatidious, if not ophiticated; or, a counterpoie of judgment is not acquired, when the heart till remains artles, though it becomes too tender.

Thee women are often amiable; and their hearts are really more enible to general benevolence, more alive to the entiments that civilize life, than the quare-elbowed family drudge; but, wanting a due proportion of reflection and elf-government, they only inpire love; and are the mitrees of their hubands, whilt they have any hold on their affections; and the platonic friends of his male acquaintance. Thee are the fair defects in nature; the women who appear to be created not to enjoy the fellowship of man, but to ave him from inking into abolute brutality, by rubbing off the rough angles of his character; and by playful dalliance to give ome dignity to the appetite that draws him to them. Gracious&ensp;