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Rh chool are allowed to read them; but I hould intantly dimis them from my pupil's, if I wihed to trengthen her undertanding, by leading her to form ound principles on a broad bais; or, were I only anxious to cultivate her tate; though they mut be allowed to contain many enible obervations.

Dr. Fordyce may have had a very laudable end in view; but thee dicoures are written in uch an affected tyle, that were it only on that account, and had I nothing to object againt his mellifluous precepts, I hould not allow girls to perue them, unles I deigned to hunt every park of nature out of their compoition, melting every human quality into female weaknes and artificial grace. I ay artificial, for true grace aries from ome kind of independence of mind.

Children, careles of pleaing, and only anxious to amue themelves, are often very graceful; and the nobility who have motly lived with inferiours, and always had the command of money, acquire a graceful eae of deportment, which hould rather be termed habitual grace of body, than that uperiour gracefulnes which is truly the expreion of the mind. This mental grace, not noticed by vulgar eyes, often flahes acros a rough countenance, and irradiating every feature, hows implicity and independence of mind.–It is then we read characters of immortality in the eye, and ee the oul in every geture, though when at ret, neither the face nor limbs may have much beauty to recommend them; or the behaviour, any thing peculiar to attract univeral attention. The mas of mankind, however, look for more Rh