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186 profound thinking, was a proof that a woman can acquire judgment, in the full extent of the word. Poeing more penetration than agacity, more undertanding than fancy, he writes with ober energy and argumentative cloenes; yet ympathy and benevolence give an interet to her entiments, and that vital heat to arguments, which forces the reader to weigh them.

When I firt thought of writing thee trictures I anticipated Mrs. Macaulay's approbation, with a little of that anguine ardour, which it has been the buines of my life to depres; but oon heard with the ickly qualm of diappointed hope; and the till eriounes of regret—that he was no more!

a view of the different works which have been written on education, Lord Cheterfield's Letters mut not be ilently paed over. Not that I mean to analyze his unmanly, immoral ytem, or even to cull any of the ueful, hrewd remarks which occur in his frivolous correpondence—No, I only mean to make a few reflections on the avowed tendency of them—the art of acquiring an early knowledge of the world. An art, I will venture to aert, that preys ecretly, like the worm in the bud, on the expanding powers, and turns to poion the generous juices which hould mount with vigour in the ful&ensp;