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own feelings. I doubt not any of my readers would 

 shrink with horror from the hardened wretch who 

 averred he could composedly see a limb taken from a 

 beautiful child, and allege, as a reason, that the suffer- 

 ing child belonged to another ; he is little better who 

 could, or would, see pain inflicted on an inoffensive 

 animal, because that was not his own. The dif- 

 ference between the two is only, the first would be 

 (as J. J. Rousseau describes a son unloving, and 

 ungrateful to his mother) a monster who ought to 

 have been strangled at his birth ; the other, one who 

 ought to be despised and execrated by his fellow- 

 men. We cannot suppose it probable that the 

 apathy, even of the latter, could be shewn by 

 women ; should, however, such a case occur, hide 

 her, ye guardians of the fair and good, from the eyes 

 of men, as one deformed in mind, apostate to 

 her sex. 



Since the now fashionable sport of steeple-racing 

 has got so much in vogue, numberless ladies 

 attend such meetings as public scenes of gaiety and 

 amusement ; numbers have, however, mentioned 



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