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142 'For this reaon, the education of the women hould be always relative to the men. To pleae, to be ueful to us, to make us love and eteem them, to educate us when young, and take care of us when grown up, to advie, to conole us, to render our lives eay and agreeable: thee are the duties of women at all times, and what they hould be taught in their infancy. So long as we fail to recur to this principle, we run wide of the mark, and all the precepts which are given them contribute neither to their happines nor our own .'

'Girls are from their earliet infancy fond of dres. Not content with being pretty, they are deirous of being thought o; we ee, by all their little airs, that this thought engages their attention; and they are hardly capable of undertanding what is aid to them, before they are to be governed by talking to them of what people will think of their behaviour. The ame motive, however, indicreetly made ue of with boys, has not the ame effect: provided they are let to purue their amuements at pleaure, they care very little what people think of them. Time and pains are neceary to ubject boys to this motive.

'Whenceoever girls derive this firt leon, it is a very good one. As the body is born, in a manner before the oul, our firt concern hould be to cultivate the former; this order is mon&ensp;