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Rh They might, alo, tudy politics, and ettle their benevolence on the broadet bais; for the heading of hitory will carcely be more ueful than the perual of romances, if read as mere biography; if the character of the times, the political improvements, arts, &c. be not oberved. In hort, if it be not conidered as the hitory of man; and not of particular men, who filled a niche in the temple of fame, and dropped into the black rolling tream of time, that ilently weeps all before it, into the hapeles void called—eternity.—For hape, can it be called, 'that hape hath none?'

Buines of various kinds, they might likewie purue, if they were educated in a more orderly manner, which might ave many from common and legal protitution. Women would not then marry for a upport, as men accept of places under government, and neglect the implied duties; nor would an attempt to earn their own ubitence, a mot laudable one! ink them almot to the level of thoe poor abandoned creatures who live by protitution. For are not milliners and mantua-makers reckoned the next clas? The few employments open to women, o far from being liberal, are menial; and when a uperiour education enables them to take charge of the education of children as governees, they are not treated like the tutors of ons, though even clerical tutors are not always treated in a manner calculated to render them repectable in the eyes of their pupils, to ay nothing of the private comfort of the individual. But as women educated like gentlewomen, are never deigned for the Rh