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222 uch a acrifice, I only contend that it was a acrifice to affection, and not merely to enibility, though he had her hare.—And I mut be allowed to call her a modet woman, before I dimis this part of the ubject, by aying, that till men are more chate women will be immodet. Where, indeed, could modet women find hubands from whom they would not continually turn with digut? Modety mut be equally cultivated by both exes, or it will ever remain a ickly hot-houe plant, whilt the affectation of it, the fig leaf borrowed by wantonnes, may give a zet to voluptuous enjoyments.

Men will probably till init that woman ought to have more modety than man; but it is not dipaionate reaoners who will mot earnetly oppoe my opinion. No, they are the men of fancy, the favourites of the ex, who outwardly repect and inwardly depie the weak creatures whom they thus port with. They cannot ubmit to reign the highet enual gratification, nor even to relih the epicurim of virtue—elf-denial.

To take another view of the ubject, confining my remarks to women.

The ridiculous falities which are told to children, from mitaken notions of modety, tend very&ensp;