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Rh 'For my part, I would have a young Englihwoman cultivate her agreeable talents, in order to pleae her future huband, with as much care and aiduity as a young Circaian cultivates her's, to fit her for the haram of an eatern bahaw.'

To render women completely inignificant, he adds—'The tongues of women are very voluble; they peak earlier, more readily, and more agreeably, than the men; they are accued alo of peaking much more: but o it ought to be, and I hould be very ready to convert this reproach into a compliment; their lips and eyes have the ame activity, and for the ame reaon. A man peaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleaes her; the one requires knowledge, the other tate; the principal object of a man's dicoure hould be what is ueful, that of a woman's what is agreeable. There ought to be nothing in common between their different converation but truth.'

'We ought not, therefore, to retrain the prattle of girls, in the ame manner as we hould that of boys, with that evere quetion; To what purpoe are you talking? but by another, which is no les difficult to anwer, How will your dicoure be received? In infancy, while they are as yet incapable to dicern good from evil, they ought to oberve it, as a law, never to ay any thing diagreeable to thoe whom they are peaking to: what will render the practice of this rule alo the more difficult, is, that it mut ever be ubordinate to the former, of never peaking falely or telling an untruth.' To govern the tongue&ensp;