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Rh he has not an immortal oul who can loiter life away merely employed to adorn her peron, that he may amue the languid hours, and often the cares of a fellow-creature who is willing to be enlivened by her miles and tricks, when the erious buines of life is over.

Beides, the woman who trengthens her body and exercies her mind will, by managing her family and practicing various virtues, become the friend, and not the humble dependent of her huband, and if he deerves his regard by poeing uch ubtantial qualities, he will not find it neceary to conceal her affection, nor to pretend to an unnatural coldnes of contitution to excite her huband's paions. In fact, if we revert to hitory, we hall find that the women who have ditinguihed themelves have neither been the mot beautiful nor the mot gentle of their ex.

Nature, or, to peak with trict propriety, God, has made all things right; but man has ought him out many inventions to mar the work. I now allude to that part of Dr. Gregory's treatie, where he advies a wife never to let her huband know the extent of her enibility or affection. Voluptuous precaution, and as ineffectual as aburd.—Love, from its very nature, mut be tranitory. To eek for a ecret that would render it contant, would be as wild a earch as for the philoopher's tone, or the grand panacea: and the dicovery would be equally ueles, or rather pernicious, to mankind. The mot holy band of ociety is friendhip. It has been well aid, by a hrewd atirit, “that rare as true love is, true friendhip is till rarer.” This&ensp;