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160 not imagine, that even uch management will always uffice. Whatever precaution be taken, enjoyment will, by degrees, take off the edge of paion. But when love hath lated as long as poible, a pleaing habitude upplies its place, and the attachment of a mutual confidence ucceeds to the tranports of paion. Children often form a more agreeable and permanent connection between married people than even love itelf. When you ceae to be the mitres of Emilius, you will continue to be his wife and friend, you will be the mother of his children .'

Children, he truly oberves, form a much more permanent connection between married people than love. Beauty, he declares, will not be valued, or even een, after a couple have lived ix months together; artificial graces and coquetry will likewie pall on the enes: why then does he ay that a girl hould be educated for her huband with the ame care as for an eatern haram?

I now appeal from the reveries of fancy and refined licentiounes to the good ene of mankind, whether, if the object of education be to prepare women to become chate wives and enible mothers, the methods o plauibly recommended in the foregoing ketch, be the one bet calculated to produce thoe ends? Will it be allowed that the uret way to make a wife chate, is to teach her to practie the wanton arts of a mitres, termed virtuous coquetry, by the enualit, who can no longer relih the artles charms of incerity, or tate the pleaure ariing from a tender intimacy, when&ensp;