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42 Can ort, what harmony or true delight? Which mut be mutual, in proportion due

Giv'n and receiv'd; but in diparity The one intene, the other till remis

Cannot well uit with either, but oon prove Tedious alike: of fellowhip I peak Such as I eek, fit to participate All rational delight—

In treating, therefore, of the manners of women, let us, diregarding enual arguments, trace what we hould endeavour to make them in order to co-operate, if the expreion be not too bold, with the upreme Being.

By individual education, I mean, for the ene of the word is not preciely defined, uch an attention to a child as will lowly harpen the enes, form the temper, regulate the paions, as they begin to ferment, and et the undertanding to work before the body arrives at maturity; o that the man may only have to proceed, not to begin, the important tak of learning to think and reaon.

To prevent any micontruction, I mut add, that I do not believe that a private education can work the wonders which ome anguine writers have attributed to it. Men and women mut be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the ociety they live in. In every age there has been a tream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till ociety be differently contituted, much cannot be expected from education. It is, however, ufficient for my&ensp;