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Rh or treat with contempt every promie to retore health to a dieaed body by upernatural means, or to foretell the incidents that can only be foreeen by God.

intance of that feminine weaknes of character, often produced by a confined education, is a romantic twit of the mind, which has been very properly termed entimental.

Women ubjected by ignorance to their enations, and only taught to look for happines in love, refine on enual feelings, and adopt metaphyical notions repecting that paion, which lead them hamefully to neglect the duties of life, and frequently in the midt of thee ublime refinements they plump into actual vice.

Thee are the women who are amued by the reveries of the tupid novelits, who, knowing little of human nature, work up tale tales, and decribe meretricious cenes, all retailed in a entimental jargon, which equally tend to corrupt the tate, and draw the heart aide from its daily duties, I do not mention the undertanding, becaue never having been exercied, its lumbering energies ret inactive, like the lurking particles of fire which are uppoed univerally to pervade matter.

Females, in fact, denied all political privileges, and not allowed, as married women, excepting in criminal caes, a civil exitence, have their attention naturally drawn from the interet of the whole community to that of the minute parts, though the private duty of any member of ociety mut Rh