Wy ds 
“nent jud 
612 
our véluminowip roduétions, of our ma 
virtues for nats we obtain credit in 
taphs and funeral fermons. Bur. 
leaft ot our good actions | 
great good is the bufinefs 
What 1 is al] our power compal 
is more pan eerous, put in’ 
with a rear or a fit ? 
I repeat it, fir, let us bring the queties 
home to ourfelves. What is it that con- 
ftitutes the felicity of domeftic life? Is 
it the wealth we have acquired, the houfe 
gnd to doa 
our rank, or the fervants that bow at our 
command? No, fir, to ufe an expreffion 
of Mr. Burke, it is ‘* the dignified 
_ we live in, the en that befpeaks 


, obedience, and proud fubmiffion”’ : 
and pay to the female fex. Our heart 
fefs that they deferve jt, and that we can- 
_ hot help paying it, and cannot, therefore,” 
tel p nowledging their fuperiority. 
Then we refufe to pay it, when our 
a ee are in a ftate of rebellion againit 
thofe lawful fovereigns, where is it that 
we dare to breathe fentiments of a fedi- 
adency ? Is it in their prefence ? 
Took, a word awes us into fubmif- 
and when Wwe conceive the thoughts 
efiftance, _we fly, ‘like cowards, to 
place, to {ome neutral ground, 





No, 
fion ; 










infulated Melee of worn-ou 
where we may growl our com} 
atchelo 
‘vy, and talk of eg 

male fex, fome 
whether they ough 
into the employment 
which women feem fo adm irably 
on this fubjeét I mean, eon fatu 
1, to offer my ‘fentiments. 
have been admitted to be aa 
_there forely can be no inferior.effice to 
which they are inadequate. A emi- 


might be chofen overfeer. 
but low, indeed, but thei 
queens who perhaps Wi 
riod of their lives, that 
filled a higher ftation. 3 
I fhal! not, however, anticipate what 


have been 
ome pe- 
j had never 
I have to offer hereafter on this fubject. 
My prefent defign was merel 
‘that great talents are not 
“thown by much writing, ane 
may be accounted to poffels 
y. to hint 



hat th 
poles by few means, which, in my mind, 
¥ 
* 
On the Ue of Lime as Manure. 
what painful efforts do we accomplith the ) 







> Vegetable fubftances are, 
‘lately decided, that a woman 
‘The office is 
ce greateft the 
talents who accomplifh the greatei pur- with 
i Sept; 
eftablifhes the fup jority of « the -fair 
tex. 2, FD ee 
Tam, fr, your 
ug. 27, 796. 
nble fervant, 
PHILOGYNES, - 
—— & 
Tovthe Editor of the. Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
iy your third Number (page 186.) ap- 
pears a Letter from a gentl who 
adopts the fignature TY. wherein he has 
favoured the public with his ideas of the 
manners in which he fi lime to be 
viceable gre vegetation 
‘he y deavours to account for 
e in hufcandry, by af- 
Mng a ates with fome 
‘periments of the late Sir John Pringle 
that lime is a fepiic and promot 
tion. bli merit be 




















felf I Geet to be erronco 5. 
» The caufticity of lime is a quality of 
extenfive ufeimfeveral manufactures: tan- 
ners and fell-mongers employ it to extri- 
cate the hair ang wool from the fkins, 
prepayator ir operations; but 
caulticity ‘ putridity, for hai thu 
feparated fually worked up with In 
J/a_compofition for plaiftering w 
Eh be 
ings, and will, in that 






ved fora great number of years. 
perhaps, 
better. preferved when inclofed in lime- 
mortar, than by any other method. [- 
have often noticed willow laths, ap- 
parently uni in the partitions of 
ld buildings e they had remained 
fifty or one ed years: andin fome 




life, for» kinds of mortar, in which lime is a prin- 
fi cipal ingredient, ftraw oat is ¢m- 
Pod ed, and thus combined 
ve durable ) 
~ In thew fa€ture of indigo, lime- 
isu partly to promote the fe- 
yf the colouring matters and: 
prevent its putseiaction 
itl become 











is biotene in to 
there is a ftrong difpofition % 
tion, and quick -lime is applieé 
portion to the danger, as a preventative. 
ft is well-known alfo, that eminent 







7 phyficians have ftrongly onde 
1 eS frequen hite- wathing the of 
rifons, the 
partments of ‘hofpitals, and 
the» 
hambers of thofe who are vifited 
y putrid afes, imorder to check 
ects !OF putrid eifluvia, 
Fro 


