'For my part, I would have a young Engliſhwoman cultivate her agreeable talents, in order to pleaſe her future huſband, with as much care and aſſiduity as a young Circaſſian cultivates her's, to fit her for the haram of an eaſtern baſhaw.'
To render women completely inſignificant, he adds—'The tongues of women are very voluble; they ſpeak earlier, more readily, and more agreeably, than the men; they are accuſed alſo of ſpeaking much more: but ſo it ought to be, and I ſhould be very ready to convert this reproach into a compliment; their lips and eyes have the ſame activity, and for the ſame reaſon. A man ſpeaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleaſes her; the one requires knowledge, the other taſte; the principal object of a man's diſcourſe ſhould be what is uſeful, that of a woman's what is agreeable. There ought to be nothing in common between their different converſation but truth.'
'We ought not, therefore, to reſtrain the prattle of girls, in the ſame manner as we ſhould that of boys, with that ſevere queſtion; To what purpoſe are you talking? but by another, which is no leſs difficult to anſwer, How will your diſcourſe be received? In infancy, while they are as yet incapable to diſcern good from evil, they ought to obſerve it, as a law, never to ſay any thing diſagreeable to thoſe whom they are ſpeaking to: what will render the practice of this rule alſo the more difficult, is, that it muſt ever be ſubordinate to the former, of never ſpeaking falſely or telling an untruth.' To govern the
