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150 Let the huband beware of truting too implicitly to this ervile obedience; for if his wife can with winning weetnes cares him when angry, and when he ought to be angry, unles contempt had tifled a natural effervecence, he may do the ame after parting with a lover. Thee are all preparations for adultery; or, hould the fear of the world, or of hell, retrain her deire of pleaing other men, when he can no longer pleae her huband, what ubtitute can be found by a being who was only formed, by nature and art, to pleae man? what can make her amends for this privation, or where is he to eek for a freh employment? where find ufficient trength of mind to determine to begin the earch, when her habits are fixed, and vanity has long ruled her chaotic mind?

But this partial moralit recommends cunning ytematically and plauibly.

'Daughters hould be always ubmiive; their mothers, however, hould not be inexorable. To make a young peron tractable, he ought not to be made unhappy; to make her modet he ought not to be rendered tupid. On the contrary, I hould not be dipleaed at her being permitted to ue ome art, not to elude punihment in cae of diobedience, but to exempt herelf from the neceity of obeying. It is not neceary to make her dependence burdenome, but only to let her feel it. Subtilty is a talent natural to the ex; and, as I am peruaded, all our natural inclinations are right and good in themelves, I am of opinion this hould be cultivated as well as the others: it is requiite for us only to prevent its abue.' 'Whatever&ensp;