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INTRODUCTION.
order; and shall only, to avoid confusion, range them under a few general heads.
You will see, in a little Treatise of mine just published, in what an honourable point of view I have considered your sex; not as domestic drudges, or the slaves of our pleasures, but as our companions and equals; as designed to soften our hearts and polish our manners; and, as Thomson finely says,
To raise the virtues, animate the bliss,
And sweeten all the toils of human life.
I shall not repeat what I have there
