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Rh mot dangerous of tyrants, and women have been duped by their lovers, as princes by their ministers, whilt dreaming that they reigned over them.

I now principally allude to Roueau, for his character of Sophia is, undoubtedly, a captivating one, though it appears to me grosly unnatural; however, it is not the upertructure, but the foundation of her character, the principles on which her education was built, that I mean to attack; nay, warmly as I admire the genius of that able writer, whoe opinions I hall often have occaion to cite, indignation always takes place of admiration, and the rigid frown of inulted virtue effaces the mile of complacency, which his eloquent periods are wont to raie, when I read his voluptuous reveries. Is this the man, who, in his ardour for virtue, would banih all the oft arts of peace, and almot carry us back to Spartan dicipline? Is this the man who delights to paint the ueful truggles of paion, the triumphs of good dipoition, and the heroic flights which carry the glowing oul out of itelf?—How are thee mighty entiments lowered when he decribes the pretty foot and enticing airs of his little favourite! But, for the preent I wave the ubject, and, intead of everely reprehending the tranient effuions of overweening enibility, I hall only oberve, that whoever has cat a benevolent eye on ociety, mut often have been gratified by the ight of humble mutual love, not dignified by entiment, nor trengthened by a union in intellectual puruits. The dometic trifles of the day have afforded Rh