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Rh knowledge. No, he was quite feminine, according to the maculine acceptation of the word; and, o far from loving thee poiled brutes that filled the place which her children ought to have occupied, he only liped out a pretty mixture of French and Englih nonene, to pleae the men who flocked round her. The wife, mother, and human creature, were all wallowed up by the factitious character which an improper education and the elfih vanity of beauty had produced.

I do not like to make a ditinction without a difference, and I own that I have been as much diguted by the fine lady who took her lap-dog to her boom intead of her child; as by the ferocity of a man, who, beating his hore, declared, that he knew as well when he did wrong, as a Chritian.

This brood of folly hews how mitaken they are who, if they allow women to leave their haramsharems [sic], do not cultivate their undertandings, in order to plant virtues in their hearts. For had they ene, they might acquire that dometic tate which would lead them to love with reaonable ubordination their whole family, from their huband to the houe-dog; nor would they ever inult humanity in the peron of the mot menial ervant by paying more attention to the comfort of a brute, than to that of a fellow-creature.

My obervations on national education are obviouly hints; but I principally wih to enforce the neceity of educating the exes together to perfect both, and of making children leep at home that they may learn to love home; yet to make private upport, intead of mothering, lic&ensp;