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20 maculine women; but where are they to be found? If by this appellation men mean to inveigh againt their ardour in hunting, hooting, and gaming, I hall mot cordially join in the cry; but if it be againt the imitation of manly virtues, or, more properly peaking, the attainment of thoe talents and virtues, the exercie of which ennobles the human character, and which raie females in the cale of animal being, when they are comprehenively termed mankind;—all thoe who view them with a philoophical eye mut, I hould think, wih with me, that they may every day grow more and more maculine.

This dicuion naturally divides the ubject. I hall firt conider women in the grand light of human creatures, who, in common with men, are placed on this earth to unfold their faculties; and afterwards I hall more particularly point out their peculiar deignation.

I wih alo to teer clear of an error which many repectable writers have fallen into; for the intruction which has hither been addreed to women, has rather been applicable to ladies, if the little indirect advice, that is cattered through Sanford and Merton, be excepted; but, addreing my ex in a firmer tone, I pay particular attention to thoe in the middle clas,&ensp;