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Rh to both exes, but the object of that cultivation is different. In the one ex it is the developement of corporeal powers; in the other, that of peronal charms: not that either the quality of trength or beauty ought to be confined excluively to one ex; but only that the order of the cultivation of both is in that repect revered. Women certainly require as much trength as to enable them to move and act gracefully, and men as much addres as to qualify them to act with eae.'

'Children of both exes have a great many amuements in common; and o they ought; have they not alo many uch when they are grown up? Each ex has alo its peculiar tate to ditinguih in this particular. Boys love ports of noie and activity; to beat the drum, to whip the top, and to drag about their little carts: girls, on the other hand, are fonder of things of how and ornament; uch as mirrours, trinkets, and dolls: the doll is the peculiar amuement of the females; from whence we ee their tate plainly adapted to their detination. The phyical part of the art of pleaing lies in dres; and this is all which children are capacitated to cultivate of that art.'

'Here then we ee a primary propenity firmly etablihed, which you need only purue and regulate.&ensp;