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326 the ame vitiated tate into life, and fly for amuement to the wanton, from the unophiticated charms of virtue, and the grave repectability of ene.

Beides, the reading of novels makes women, and particularly ladies of fahion, very fond of uing trong expreions and uperlatives in converation; and, though the diipated artificial life which they lead prevents their cherihing any trong legitimate paion, the language of paion in affected tones lips forever from their glib tongues, and every trifle produces thoe phophoric burts which only mimick in the dark the flame of paion.

and the mitaken cunning that nature harpens in weak heads as a principle of elf-preervation, render women very fond of dres, and produce all the vanity which uch a fondnes may naturally be expected to generate, to the excluion of emulation and magnanimity.

I agree with Roueau that the phyical part of the art of pleaing conits in ornaments, and for that very reaon I hould guard girls againt the contagious fondnes for dres o common to weak women, that they may not ret in the phyical part. Yet, weak are the women who imagine that they can long pleae without the aid of the mind, or, in other words, without the moral art of pleaing. But the moral art, if it be not a profanation to ue the word art, when alluding to the grace which is an effect of virtue, and not the&ensp;