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Rh lives with women, and with whom they have ought for pleaure with eager thirt, entertain the meanet opinion of the ex.—Virtue, true refiner of joy!—if foolih men were to fright thee from earth, in order to give looe to all their appetites without a check—ome enual wight of tate would cale the heavens to invite thee back, to give a zet to pleaure!

That women at preent are by ignorance rendered foolih or vicious, is, I think, not to be diputed; and, that the mot alutary effects tending to improve mankind might be expected from a in female manners, appears, at leat, with a face of probability, to rie out of the obervation. For as marriage has been termed the parent of thoe endearing charities which draw man from the brutal herd, the corrupting intercoure that wealth, idlenes, and folly, produce between the exes, is more univerally injurious to morality than all the other vices of mankind collectively conidered. To adulterous lut the mot acred duties are acrificed, becaue before marriage, men, by a promicuous intimacy with women, learned to conider love as a elfih gratification—learned to eparate it not only from eteem but from the affection merely built on habit, which mixes a little humanity with it. Jutice and friendhip are alo et at defiance, and that purity of tate is vitiated which would naturally lead a man to relih an artles diplay of affection rather than affected airs. But that noble implicity of affection, which dares to appear unadorned, has few attractions for the libertine, though it be the charm, which by Rh