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Rh of behaviour mut be worn out before one being could eat immoderately in the preence of another, and afterwards complain of the oppreion that his intemperance naturally produced. Some women, particularly French women, have alo lot a ene of decency in this repect; for they will talk very calmly of an indigetion. It were to be wihed that idlenes was not allowed to generate, on the rank oil of wealth, thoe warms of ummer inects that feed on putrefaction, we hould not then be diguted by the ight of uch brutal excees.

There is one rule relative to behaviour that, I think, ought to regulate every other; and it is imply to cherih uch an habitual repect for mankind as may prevent us from diguting a fellow-creature for the ake of a preent indulgence. The hameful indolence of many married women, and others a little advanced in life, frequently leads them to in againt delicacy. For, though convinced that the peron is the band of union between the exes, yet, how often do they from heer indolence, or, to enjoy ome trifling indulgence, digut?

The depravity of the appetite which brings the exes together, has had a till more fatal effect. Nature mut ever be the tandard of tate, the guage of appetite—yet how grosly is nature inulted by the voluptuary. Leaving the refinements of love out of the quetion; nature, by making the gratification of an appetite, in this repect, as well as every other, a natural and imperious law to preerve the pecies, exalts the appetite, and mixes a little mind and affection Rh