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Matrimony.
groſſed by domeſtic cares before any habits are fixed. The paſſions alſo have too much influence over the judgment to ſuffer it to direct her in this moſt important affair; and many women, I am perſuaded, marry a man before they are twenty, whom they would have rejected ſome years after. Very frequently, when the education has been neglected, the mind improves itſelf, if it has leiſure for reflection, and experience to reflect on; but how can this happen when they are forced to act before they have had time to think, or find that they are unhappily married? Nay, ſhould they be ſo fortunate as to get a good huſband, they
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