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Rh fondle; to give cope to our imaginations as well as to the enations of our hearts.

At twenty the beauty of both exes is equal; but the libertinim of man leads him to make the ditinction, and uperannuated coquettes are commonly of the ame opinion; for, when they can no longer inpire love, they pay for the vigour and vivacity of youth. The French, who admit more of mind into their notions of beauty, give the preference to women of thirty. I mean to ay that they allow women to be in their mot perfect tate, when vivacity gives place to reaon, and to that majetic eriounes of character, which marks maturity;—or, the reting point. In youth, till twenty, the body hoots out, till thirty the olids are attaining a degree of denity; and the flexible mucles, growing daily more rigid, give character to the countenance; that is, they trace the operations of the mind with the iron pen of fate, and tell us not only what powers are within, but how they have been employed.

It is proper to oberve, that animals who arrive lowly at maturity, are the longet lived, and of the noblet pecies. Men cannot, however, claim any natural uperiority from the grandeur of longevity; for in this repect nature has not ditinguihed the male.

Polygamy is another phyical degradation; and a plauible argument for a cutom, that blats every dometic virtue, is drawn from the well-atteted fact, that in the countries where it is etablihed, more females are born than males. This appears to be an indication of nature, and to&ensp;