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Matrimony.
vantage. If they have a tolerable underſtanding, it has a chance to be cultivated. They are forced to ſee human nature as it is, and are not left to dwell on the pictures of their own imaginations. Nothing, I am ſure, calls forth the faculties ſo much as the being obliged to ſtruggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married ſtate. Her ſphere of action is not large, and if ſhe is not taught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and purſuits! What little arts engroſs and narrow
her mind! "Cunning fills up the mighty void of ſenſe," and cares, which do not improve the heart or un-
derſtand
