STUDY X. 



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over our infancy, our refpect as a mother, and our 

 gratitude as a nurfe ; afterward, as Man advances 

 ~^ to youth, ihe attracts all his love as a miltrefs ; 

 4 and in the maturity of manhood, all his tendernefs 

 1 as a wife, his confidence as a faithful fteward, his 

 protection, as being feeble ; and, even in old age, 

 * S S/ fhe merits our higheft confideration, as the fource 

 of posterity, and our intimacy, as a friend who 

 has been the companion of our good and bad for- 

 tune through life. Her gaiety, nay, her very ca- 

 prices, balance, at all feafons,-the gravity, and the 

 over- reflective conftancy of Man, and acquire, re- 

 ciprocally, a preponderancy over him. 



Thus, the defects of the one fex, and the excefs 

 of the other, are an exact mutual compenfation. 

 They are formed, if I may ufe the expreffion, to 

 be grooved into each other, like the correfponding 

 pieces of carpenters-work, the prominent and re- 

 treating parts of which conftitute a vefTel, fit to 

 launch on the ftormy ocean of life, and to attain 

 additional ftrength from the very buffetings of the 

 tempeft. Had we not been informed by a Sacred 

 Tradition, that Woman was extracted from the 

 fide of Man ; and though this great truth were 

 not every day manifefled, in the wonderful birth 

 of the children of the two fexes, in equal numbers, 

 we mould be fpeedily inftructed in it by our 

 wants. Man without the Woman, and Woman 



without 



