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54 look into herelf for comfort, and cultivate her dormant faculties? or, is it not more rational to expect that he will try to pleae other men; and, in the emotions raied by the expectation of new conquets, endeavour to forget the mortification her love or pride has received? When the huband ceaes to be a lover—and the time will inevitably come, her deire of pleaing will then grow languid, or become a pring of bitternes; and love, perhaps, the mot evanecent of all paions, gives place to jealouy or vanity.

I now peak of women who are retrained by principle or prejudice; uch women, though they would hrink from an intrigue with real abhorrence, yet, nevertheles, wih to be convinced by the homage of gallantry that they are cruelly neglected by their hubands; or, days and weeks are pent in dreaming of the happines enjoyed by congenial ouls, till the health is undermined and the pirits broken by dicontent. How then can the great art of pleaing be uch a neceary tudy; it is only ueful to a mitres; the chate wife, and erious mother, hould only conider her power to pleae as the polih of her virtues, and the affection of her huband as one of the comforts that render her tak les difficult and her life happier.—But, whether he be loved or neglected, her firt wih hould be to make herelf repectable, and not to rely for all her happines on a being ubject to like infirmities with herelf.

The amiable Dr. Gregory fell into a imilar error. I repect his heart; but entirely diapprove of his celebrated Legacy to his Daughters. He&ensp;