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classes stoop to lift to their rank females, however 

 lovely, amiable, or endowed, whom they are accustom-, 

 ed to consider in their families as scarcely raised above 

 a servile station ? If lovely and attractive in their 

 persons and manners, they are encompassed by ten- 

 fold perils. 



Most formidable, most threatening in their moral 

 consequences, are the impediments hence likely to 

 arise to an improved state of society and civihzation. 

 This mode of female education is infinitely worse and 

 more dangerous than would be its total neglect, since, 

 in that case, woman, amidst the present diffusion of 

 knowledge and literature, would come in for her share ; 

 she would read, think, acquire principles, communicate 

 them to her children, and fulfil, at least, the domestic 

 duties of her station. She would not blush for her 

 unrefined parents and relatives ; she would not shrink 

 disgusted from the honest affection of her equal and 

 neighbour, who, occupied in procuring the property, or 

 the habits, necessary to the provision for a family, had 

 no leisure for the study of ornament and grace. 



2 o be concluded in ovr nejct number. 



FUNEREAL SKETCHES. 



No. VI. 



THE FALL OF SISERA. 



She asked, from the lattice, " Why brooks he delay ? 

 Should the wheels of his chariot roll heavy to-day ?" 

 Her wise maidens answered, " Slow roll from afar, 

 In the dust of their glory, the chariots of war.** 



" O ! have they not sped and divided the spoil ? 

 To each man a damsel, in guerdon of toil, 

 And meet for the Chieftain, the robes he hath won. 

 Say, sliall he not grace them — thy conquering son ?" 



That son hath been vanquished : all weary and spent 

 He hath fled to the Kenite, his shelter her tent. 

 There's the milk and the butter, a hammer and nail, 

 Those set by the sleeper, these waking with Jael. 



