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at the fake, without the hope of a future 
recompenfe. Who canaffirm that women 
are by nature timid, when they confent 
daily to andergo as much danger by their 
fire- fides, as the foldier in the field or the 
failor on the ocean ? 
But the mifchiefs produced by cold 
in confequence of the prefent mode, 
though lefs obvious and alarming, are 
much more numerous. Our changeful 
and habitually cold and moift climate is 
peculiarly produétive of that fatal difeafe 
the conjumption, to which none are fo ii- 
able as delicate females in the firft bloom 
of life. No guard againft it is equally 
important with the prefervation of an 
equable warmth over the whole furface of 
the body ; for the fympathy between the 
Jungs and the (kin infallibly renders a par- 
tial application of cold to the latter, the 
caufe of deranged aétion. in the former. 
The progrefs Fitegm a cold to a cough, and 
from the latier toa confumption, is fo fre- 
quent, and in fome conftitutions fo rapid, 
that nocommon danger frem difeafe at the 
age of puberty can campare with it. Nor 
is it poflible to conceive any fyitem of drefs 
more calculated to produce inequality of 
bodily temperature than that of modern 
fathionable females. I acknowledge, 
that to meet them in the itreets, wrapt up 
in pelliffes, and buried in fur muffs and 
tippets, they feem as impenetrable to cold 
as the animals from whicn they borrow 
their thaggy fpoils. But how different 
their appearance in the pariour or draw- 
ing-room, where fome of the very parts 
which are moft guarded abroad, are re- 
duced to abfolute nudity! Ido not pre- 
tend to deny that comfortable flannel may 
jurk under an exterior coating of fine mul- 
lin ; but their elbows and arms, dear Sir! 
think of their poor, cold, red elbows and 
arms! By the bye, [ will venture to fug- 
geit—and I believe I fhall have even the 
young men on my fide—that the fair-fex 
in general were never more out in their 
politics, than when they chofe to treat us 
with the view of a part of their perfons 
which is very rarely a captivating fpec- 
tacle, and often much the reverfe. Necks 
and fhoulders, too, we may certainly fay, 
are out of the region of flannel ; and I 
fafpect that the delicate ankle, which has 
lately fo much grown upon us, has rarely 
a fecond covering. On the whole, I can 
never on a cold day behold a young lady 
in her Chambervy or muflins, her tran{pa- 
rent drapery and her nudities, without a 
fympathetic fhudder ; and when I ferioufly 
refleé&t on the manifold dangers to which 
fhe is expofed, I lament that fo fair a thing 
fhould be fo perifhable. When thall we 
Female Cloathing.—Englifh Prepofitions. 
Latin languages. 
‘nant with.” 
of the Englih language. 
fee again the good, times of -fiiks and fa- 
tins, ftuffs and calimancoes? . But I feet 
myfelf in danger of betraying too much of 
the old fellow, fo, Sir, I refpeétfully take 
my leave. Your’s &c., 
. PHILOGUNES. 
ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
RAMMARIANS have widely dif- 
fered in their precepts, and writers, 
of late, in their practice, with refpect to 
the appropriation of particular prepofi- 
tions to Certain compounded Englifh verbs 
and nouns formed from the Greek and 
Indeed, the genius and 
ftructure of the Englifh are fo different 
from thofe of the other two, that it ap- 
pears an inipeffibility to determine on any 
certain or general rule for the correét man- 
ner of ufing them, upon principles of ana- 
logy. Some have contended, that the 
Engiith prepofition is generally to be re- 
gulated by the prepofition in compofition, 
as when we fay, ‘* to intervene defqweez,”” 
*‘ to avert from; and that the words de. 
rived from thefe, whether nouns, adizc- 
tives, or adverbs, are to have the fame 
prepofition after them as the verb, thus, 
“‘averle from,’’ ‘ averfion from,” < de- 
pend oz,”’ ** dependent oz,” ‘* dependence 
on,’ comply with,’ ** compliant wb,” 
‘“‘compliance with.’ And upon this 
principle it appears to me that Mr. L, 
Murray, in his Englith Grammar (article 
Prepohtions), has been hafty in condemn- 
ing ‘* conformable ayzth,” and ‘* confo- 
With, he fays, thould be ¢e ; 
but itis needlefs to mention, that both 
expreffions are ufed by the beft writers, 
and are perfectly juftifiable from analogy, 
and according to the principles and genius 
In the fame 
page he condemns ‘¢ his abhorrence to 
that figure.” To, he fays, fhould be o/: 
Of is certainly the leaft likely to become 
exceptionable in any initance, as it de- 
notes the ufual relation fubfiting between 
two fubftantives coming together, fipni- 
fying different things; but we likewile 
read, *¢ abhorrent and abhorrence /ro7z,”° 
as well as ‘* to,” the former of which is, 
without doubr, as juftifiable as “* averfe 
and averfion from,’’ and the latter is a 
common and natural mede of exprefiing 
the application of a pafiion or affcétion z¢ 
any particular object. ‘* Phy prejudice 
fo my caufe.”” He fays it fhould te 
againfi.’ When prejudice is ufed in its 
primary figaification of a premature, par- 
tial judgment, or prepoffeliox, per{picuity 
requires that it fhould be followed by 
againft, or in favour of, although even in 
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