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176 with a lover, I mut repeat with emphais, a former obervation,—it would be well if they were only agreeable or rational companions.—But in this repect his advice is even inconitent with a paage which I mean to quote with the mot marked approbation.

'The entiment that a woman may allow all innocent freedoms, provided her virtue is ecure, is both grosly indelicate and dangerous, and has proved fatal to many of your ex.' With this opinion I perfectly coincide. A man, or a woman, of any feeling, mut always wih to convince a beloved object that it is the carees of the individual, not the ex, that is received and returned with pleaure; and that the heart, rather than the enes, is moved. Without this natural delicacy, love becomes a elfih peronal gratification that oon degrades the character.

I carry this entiment till further. Affection, when love is out of the quetion, authories many peronal endearments, that naturally flowing from an innocent heart, give life to the behaviour; but the peronal intercoure of appetite, gallantry, or vanity, is depicable. When a man queezes the hand of a pretty woman, handing her to a carriage, whom he has never een before, he will conider uch an impertinent freedom in the light of an inult, if he have any true delicacy, intead of being flattered by this unmeaning homage to beauty. Thee are the privileges of friendhip, or the momentary homage which the heart pays to virtue, when it flahes uddenly on the notice—mere animal pirits have no claim to the kindnees of affection. Wihing&ensp;