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ferved. ‘Many women, it is faid, have 
been better educated than Shak{peare. 
This would be dificult. to prove, 
when education is comprehenfively coa- 
fidered, as confifting cf precept, acci- 
dent, feel ee ee and political in- 
futution. In all thefe branches, by which 
the human charaéter is whoily madi Sed, 
women fuffer great and peculiar Gilad 
vantages. Till it can be demonftrat ed, 
that man has a fixth fenfe, or fome me- 
thod of acquiring, combining, and affo- 
ciating his ideas, from which nature 
has precluded woman, thefe arrogant 
claims muft be referred to the fame ere 
with every other proud and cxghuive 
pretenfion. 
In the early ages; and in the fhfancy 
ape was decided, and 
of reafen, every 2 
every difpute fettled, by brute force. 
Man having, for phyfical purpofes, a 
fmall degree of fuperior bodily firength 
(for the difference, at prefent obfery - 
able, is the fy tematic refult of education 
and habit) fubjugated woman. As ci- 
vilization advanced, the flavery of the 
fernale was meliorated, and inan exact 
ratio with rational and philofephical im- 
provement, became lefs and lefs - 
{o intoxicating 1s the nature 
Tent.) But, 
of power, endeavours were fill made to 
the. truths 
Uy eee jand entangle 
which could no longer be fuppreffed : : 
and woman, beginni ng {fo to feel her own 
dignity, id to adert “the glorious privi- 
Jege of thinking and reaioning, was to 
“be flattered into the feeble imbecile erca- 
ture which Cexgep ytingéa few ind dividuals, 
whofe number, we perceive with pride 
and pleafure, is daily and rapidly in- 
creahng) has, in every age, corrupted 
degraded, and, in nent ly TV Ear sine 
over her opprefior. Roufieau, whofe 
genius and vanity led him to sts and 
defend eccentric and erroneous opinicns, 
which he fo weil knew how f@ render 
fe ee by the charms of a captivating 
eloquence, fet the example, and reared, 
on fanciful principlé& a dazzling and 
beautiful hypothefis, anyolvinge in itfelf 
contradiétions, and demon rably falfe. 
Woman herfelf, cajoled by thefe arti- 
fices, has, not unir equenily, been induced 
pertinacioutly to contend for “ the fen- 
tment that brutalizes het,” and to re- 
linquith the only vaiuable and noble pur- 
pofe of exiftence, mental and moral in 
provement, which ar mifeparadly con - 
ected, becaufe fhe is told, in the faun- 
“ine accents of a de efigning courtier— 
«Phat it would be an unjuft m sonopoly 
to pretend to be at once the my? lovely 
_ Univerfity Latin. 
[July 
and the wife part of the human {pe- 
cies.’ Amidft the difadvantages under 
which women have hitherto laboured, 
the heroines of antiquity, Searamae. 
Zenobia, and Boadicea—the Catherines 
of the North, and Elizabeth of England 
the,Lefhian Sappho, the Grecian Hy- 
patia, Madame de Charelet, the com- 
mentator upon Newton; Dacier, the 
tranflator of Homer; and Macauley, the 
Englith Pee. with many others, 
who have rendered their names ilufri- 
ous, have afforded preg Of powers and 
capatitics, perh aps little leis extraor- 
dinary than either thofe of Homer, 
Newton, or Shakfpeare. , How have 
arts, Ce literature, morals, and 
happinefs been impeded in their progrefs 
by jealous and palery contentions fos 
pre-eminence,» whether’ menarchical, 
ariftecra tically Weudal, profeffional, or 
fexually When will He mifts of preju- 
be di: pelle by the light of reafon ? 
Whenwilla evou§ipolicy take place of 
partial inftitution? When fhail we ceafe 
to be difgufted with .unmeaning and 
oftentatious Ph eas to liberality of 

fentiment; liberality which has hitherte 
been little, more t a name? 
Fuly, 25.1796. A WoMAN, 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
* 
STR, 
Cher. latinity of «a deputy profeffor of 
. the Univerfity of Cambridge, has 
afforded fiuch amufement to the men of 
Oxtord ; his proleg gomena are m 
great requeft at their evening potations, 
de Germans amufe theielees wit 
aughing at both parties; and the Preface 
o Brunk’s Apolionius afforded a a ipeci- 
men of the eftimation in which the 
clafficai literature of Oxford 1s held upon 
the continent. They are now attackin 
the letter of Dr. Hoimes to the Bifhop 
of Durham, on the prepaxations for the 
Septuagint veriions; and, on correétin 
a little piece, I muft conhalss indeed, of 
rather bald Latinity, they exclaim, that 
he writes fo very wn/laieinifch, fo very 
unclafiicaliy, as may be feen even from 
He title page, that mm many places it Is 
diMeult to divine his meaning. The fol- 
lowing paffage they cannot venture, they 
fay, to tranflate: “ Poftulat res ne 
“ effueret in immenfum infinitumque 
‘¢ ut terminis anguftiorl ibus fepta conti- 
“ neatur (varlarum leétionum malti- 
“ tude) & ademprum eft, ut poffim 
“© coacervare quantum aliqui hortaban- 
‘tur, quodque exoptabam “ipfe com- 
6s plectiy 
an d 
