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180 others. Thus degraded, her reaon, her mity reaon! is employed rather to burnih than to nap her chains.

Indignantly have I heard women argue in the ame track as men, and adopt the entiments that brutalize them, with all the pertinacity of ignorance.

I mut illutrate my aertion by a few examples. Mrs. Piozzi, who often repeated by rote, what he did not undertand, comes forward with Johnonian periods.

'Seek not for happines in ingularity; and dread a refinement of widom as a deviation into folly.' Thus he dogmatically addrees a new married man; and to elucidate this pompous exordium, he adds, 'I aid that the peron of your lady would not grow more pleaing to you, but pray let her never upect that it grows les o: that a woman will pardon an affront to her undertanding much ooner than one to her peron, is well known; nor will any of us contradict the aertion. All our attainments, all our arts, are employed to gain and keep the heart of man; and what mortification can exceed the diappointment, if the end be not obtained? There is no reproof however pointed, no punihment however evere, that a woman of pirit will not prefer to neglect; and if he can endure it without complaint, it only proves that he means to make herelf amends by the attention of others for the lights of her huband!'

Thee are truly maculine entiments.—'All our arts are employed to gain and keep the heart of man:'—and what is the if&ensp;