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igreat advantages arifing from ino- 
culation, become every day more 
perceptible. 
The f{chools for the education of 
young people of both iexes, are 
almoft always in the country. In 
walking through the charming 
villages which furround the ~ me- 
tropolis, one is delighted to fee 
_thrée or four houfes together, dedi-. 
cated folely to this purpofe. ‘Thefe 
fupport a prodigious number of 
language-mafters, dancing-mafters, 
mufic-mafters, &c. &c. 7 
The l@dlies, trufting perhaps too 
much to their natural charms, often 
neglect the means of fetting them 
of to advantage. But a very few 
even of the women of the town 
make ufe of rouge. Many women 
of fafhion, when dreffed in the moft 
elegant manner, do not ufe hair- 
powder;  xeafnefi, however, which 
feems aétually to be a rage amongtt 
them, is never neglected. 
The moft elegant part of an 
Englifhwoman’s apparel is her hat, 
which is ufually adorned with rib- 
bands and feathers. No female, 
of whatever rank, dares appear in 
the ftreets of London on foot, with- 
out one of thefe; the very beggars 
wear them. The art with which 
they place them, is but imperfectly 
imitated by foreigners, who know 
not how to derive from them all 
their magical ‘advantages. The 
charming effect which they pro- 
duce, made Linguet obferve, that if 
Homer had been acquainted with 
this enchanting drefs, he would not 
»only have given a ceftus to Venus, 
but alfo a hat. 
The fair-fex in that country have 
a number of .cuftoms peculiar to 
themfelves, and among others that 
of riding on horfeback;. in this 
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fituation, they may be feen gallop- 
ing by hundreds along Hyde Park. 
On thefe occafions, they are always 
drefled like Amazons’; a prac- 
tice introduced by queen’ Anne, 
the confort of Richard II. and 
which has continued to-the prefent 
time. The ladies alfo think it in- 
decent to fhew themfelves at the 
window. It is only an extraordi- 
nary circumftance that will make a 
woman of character open it, to fa- 
tisfy her curiofity. ‘The women of 
the town, however, are entirely 
above fuch a prejudice. 
The education among the Eng- 
lifh, as far as it regards health, is 
excellent: I cannot, however, fay 
fo much in refpecét to morals. The 
abufes which prevail in the great 
fchools are: well known; I fhall 
therefore be filent concerning them. 
After a long contention concerning 
the advantages and difadvantages 
of a public or private education, it 
feems at laft to have been decided 
in favour of the former. The 
young duke of Bedford, who is the 
richeft peer in the kingdom, was 
for feveral years at Weftminfter, 
where he was brought up as other 
young men. His table and his bed 
were entirely the fame as theirs. 
Two guineas a week were allowed 
him for pocket money; and out of 
his income, which amounts to fixty- 
thoufand pounds per annum, five 
hundred only were expended in his 
education. ’ 
All the exercifes which tend to 
bring the mufcles into ‘aétion, and 
to make the body healthy and ro- 
buft, are the daily recreations of 
thefe public fchools, which, not- 
withftanding their numberlefs’ dif- 
advantages, do not, however, make 
youth effeminate. . 
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