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170 them with this and the other mark of diregard or indifference; when, to peak the truth, they have themelves in a great meaure to blame. Not that I would jutify the men in any thing wrong on their part. But had you behaved to them with more repectful obervance, and a more equal tendernes; tudying their humours, overlooking their mitakes, ubmitting to their opinions in matters indifferent, paing by little intances of unevennes, caprice, or paion, giving oft anwers to haty words, complaining as eldom as poible, and making it your daily care to relieve their anxieties and prevent their wihes, to enliven the hour of dulnes, and call up the ideas of felicity: had you purued this conduct, I doubt not but you would have maintained and even increaed their eteem, o far as to have ecured every degree of influence that could conduce to their virtue, or your mutual atisfaction; and your houe might at this day have been the abode of dometic blis.' Such a woman ought to be an angel—or he is an as—for I dicern not a trace of the human character, neither reaon nor paion in this dometic drudge, whoe being is aborbed in that of a tyrant's.

Still Dr. Fordyce mut have very little acquaintance with the human heart, if he really uppoed that uch conduct would bring back wandering love, intead of exciting contempt. No, beauty, gentlenes, &c, &c. may gain a heart; but eteem, the only lating affection, can alone be obtained by virtue upported by reaon. It is repect for the undertanding that keeps alive tendernes for the peron. As&ensp;