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Rh her peron, and was there ever a peron, though formed with Medician ymmetry, that was not lighted? be neglected, he will make herelf amends by endeavouring to pleae other men. Noble morality! But thus is the undertanding of the whole ex affronted, and their virtue deprived of the common bais of virtue. A woman mut know, that her peron cannot be as pleaing to her huband as it was to her lover, and if he be offended with him for being a human creature, he may as well whine about the los of his heart as about any other foolih thing.—And this very want of dicernment or unreaonable anger, proves that he could not change his fondnes for her peron into affection for her virtues or repect for her undertanding.

Whilt women avow, and act up to uch opinions, their undertandings, at leat, deerve the contempt and obloquy that men, who never inult their perons, have pointedly levelled at the female mind. And it is the entiments of thee polite men, who do not wih to be encumbered with mind, that vain women thoughtlesly adopt. Yet they hould know, that inulted reaon alone can pread that acred reerve about the peron, which renders human affections, for human affections have always ome bae alloy, as permanent as is conitent with the grand end of exitence—the attainment of virtue.

The Barones de Stael peaks the ame language as the lady jut cited, with more enthuiam. Her eulogium on Roueau was accidentally put into my hands, and her entiments, the entiments of too many of my ex, may erve as the text for