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Rh that a well educated girl had not time to be in love. Is it poible to have much repect for a ytem of education that thus inults reaon and nature?

Many imilar opinions occur in her writings, mixed with entiments that do honour to her head and heart. Yet o much upertition is mixed with her religion, and o much worldly widom with her morality, that I hould not let a young peron read her works, unles I could afterwards convere on the ubjects, and point out the contradictions.

Mrs. Chapone's Letters are written with uch good ene, and unaffected humility, and contain o many ueful obervations, that I only mention them to pay the worthy writer this tribute of repect. I cannot, it is true, always coincide in opinion with her; but I always repect her.

The very word repect brings Mrs. Macaulay to my remembrance. The woman of the greatet abilities, undoubtedly, that this country has ever produced.—And yet this woman has been uffered to die without ufficient repect being paid to her memory.

Poterity, however, will be more jut; and remember that Catharine Macaulay was an example of intellectual acquirements uppoed to be incompatible with the weaknes of her ex. In her tyle of writing, indeed, no ex appears, for it is like the ene it conveys, trong and clear.

I will not call her's a maculine undertanding, becaue I admit not of uch an arrogant aumption of reaon; but I contend that it was a ound one, and that her judgment, the matured fruit of profound&ensp;