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'k• s into custody, iiml have seized the treasure tor the kind's use.” “ For the kind's iw>!" ex claimed the ( liief; “Dues the sun shilie oil <lint country ■■ < > yes.” “Does it rain there” ' ■ \ssiircdly“ Wonderful! Hut art: there 'atne animals in (lie country, that lire on the _tass anti green herbs ? ’ “ Very many, and of mailt kind ’ \v, that must he the cause,” • aid the Child, “lor the sake of these innocent animals, the gracious being continues to let the sun shine and Hie rain drop down on your own • ountry, since its inhabitants are unworthy of •nell blessing* '—[I limritz's 11< bran Tubs. F U'Al. f.f ! H T Of MATKKNAI IMIUTION Marin Theresa believed (!iat her daughter's beauty would have proved more powerful over I'raiie.e than her own armies. I,ike Catherine '! her em ied contemporary, she consulted no (o s of nature i[i the disposal of her children. When they grew up. tliey heeanie tlie none instruments of her ambition. 'The fate of one of them will show how their mother worldli ness was rewarded. A leading object of Maria I iieresa’s policy was the attainment of intlu cnee over Italy : for this purpose she first mar ried one of the Archduchesses to the imbecile Duke of Parma. I let-second manoeuvre was to contrive that Charles II should seek the Archduchess .losepha lor his younger son, the Kin"; of Naples. AY’lien even thing had been settled, and the ceremony, by prow, had taken place, it was thought proper to sound the pi in ess as to how far she fell inclined to aid her mother's designs in tin* court of Naples. •• Scrip Hire says,” was her reply, •• that when a woman is married, she belongs to the country of her husband.” “ Hut tire policy of the state!" e\ claimed Maria Theresa - i-tliat above reii gioncried the princess This unexpected answer of the Archduchess was so totally op posite to the views of the Kinpress, that she was for a considerable time undecided whether she would allow her daughter to depart, to! iviinimil liv perplexities, sin- at last consented; hut (mill' the Archduchess, previous to setting nil to this much (h'Minl country of her husband, lo go ilouii to the lomhs, and. in the vaults of her ancestors, oiler iiji to heaven a fervent prav iT for tin- souls of those she was about to leave. OnU a few day. before that, a princess had been buried in the vaults—1 think Joseph 11. s second wile who had died of the small pox. The Archduchess losepha obeyed her imperial mother’.- command, look b ave of all iier friends and relations, as it conscious of the result, caught the disease and in a few da vs died! * Srcnl .Ahmoirx i-f the ltuyal Family of I’muce. 1T.MAl.K TF.Hl’KIJ. It is particularly necessary for girls to acquire, command'of iem|'U', because much of the ef fect of tl.eir pou ti of reasoning and of their wit. nuenilhm gre.w up. depends upon the. g'Cvdx■ :a'" a- i c i b'ouor with wtueli they conduct themselves. A woman who should at tempt to thunder with her tongue, would not find her eloquence to increase her domestic happiness. We do not wish that women should implicitly yield their better judgment to their lather*, or husbands: hut let them support the cause of reason with all the grace of female jo iitleni .ss. A man in a furious passion, is terrible to his enemies; but a Minium in a passion, is disgnstini' to her friends. She loses all the respect due to her sr\, and she has not masculine strength and courage to enforce any other kind of respect. These circumstances should be considered by those, who adust; that no difference should he made in the education of the two sexes. The happiness and influence of women, both | as wives and mothers, and, indeed, in every re | latum, so much depend on their temper, that it i ought to be most carefully cultivated. We , shoul 1 not suffer girls to imagine that they ! balance ill humor by sente gootl quality or ac ! compli'hment; because, in fact, there urr none ; ichiefi ran supply the leant of temper in the female FEMALE EDUCATION-. FUO'I THE EOIMll'Rri REVIEW. I A great part of the objections made to the edu cation of women, are rather objections made to hu man nature, than to the female sex ; for it is surely true, that knowledge, where it does produce any bad effects at all, does as much mischief to the one sex as to the other, and gives birth to fully as much arrogance, inattention to common affairs, and ec centricity among men, as it does among women.— lint it by no means follows, that you get rid of vani ty and self-conceit, because you get rid of learning. ! Self-complacency can never want an excuse ; and the best way to make it more tolerable, and more ; useful, is to give to it as high and as dignified an object as possible. But at all events, it is unfair, to bring forward against a part of the world, an ob j jection which is equally powerful against the whole, i ^ hen foolish women think they have am distinc j tion, tlicv are apt to be proud of it ; so are foolish | men. Hut we appeal to any one who has lived with j cultivated persons of either sex, whether he has not I witnessed as much pedantry, as much wrong-head | edness, as much arrogance, and certainly a great deal more rudeness, produced by learning, in men, than in women. Some persons arc apt to contrast the acquisition of important knowledge with what they cal! simple pleasures; and deem it more becoming that women should educate flowers; make friendship with birds, and pick up plants, than enter into more difficult and fatiguing studies. If a woman has no taste and j genius for higher occupations, let her engage in I these, to be sure, rather than remain destitute of anv pursuit. But whv are we necessarih todoom I '. ‘ ' a gul, whatever be her taste and her capacity, to one unvaried line of petty and frivolous occupation1 If she is full of strong sense and elevated curiosity, can there be any reason why she should he diluted an i enfeebled down to a mere culler rf simples, and fancier of birds ; why books of'reasoning and histo ry are to be torn out ofher hands, and why she is to be sent, like the butterfly, to hover over the idle flowers of the field ! Such amusements are inno cent to those whom they can occupy ; but they are not innocent to those who have too powerful under standings to be occupied by them. Light broths and fruits are innocent food only to weak or infant stomachs ; but they arc poison to that organ in its perfect and mature state. M e cannot deny the jealousy which exists among pompous and foolish men, respecting the education of women. There is a class of pedants who would be cut short, in the estimation of the world, a whole cubit, if it were generally known that a young lady of eighteen could be taught to decline the tenses of the middle voice, or acquaint herself with the tKolick varieties of that celebrated language, 'filer women have, of course, all ignorant men for ene - mies to their instruction, who being bound, (as thee think) in point of sox, to know more, are not well pleased, in point of fact, to know less. Hut among men of sense and liberal politeness, a woman who has successfully cultivated her mind without diniin isbing the gentleness and propriety of her manners, is always sure to meet with a respect and attention bordering on enthusiasm. i nere is, in eitlier sex, a strong and permanent disposition to appear agreeabl'- to Jie other ; ami this is the fair answer to those wtio are fond of sup posing that a higher degree of knowledge would, make women rather the rivals than the companion-, of men. Presupposing such a desire to please, it seems much more probable, that a common pursuit should lie afresh source of interest, rather than a cause of contention. Indeed, to suppose that anv mode of i ducation can create a general jealousv and rivalry between the sexes, is so very ridiculous, that it requires only to be stated, in order to be refuted. The same desire of pleasing secures all that delicac, and reserve, which are of such inestimable value to women. We are quite astonished on hearing men converse on such subjects, to find them attributing such beautiful effects to ignorance. It would ap pear from the tenor of such objections, that igno rance has been the greatest civilizer in the world. Women arc delicate and refined, onlv because tin v are ignorant ; they attend to their children, onlv bo cause they know no better 1 Now, we must rcaliv confess we have all our lives been so ignorant as not to know the value of ignorance ! We have always attributed the modesty and the refined manners of women, to their being well taught in moral and re ligious duty ; to the hazardous situation in which they are placed ; to that perpetual vigilance, w hich it is their duly to exercise over thought, word and action, and to that cultivation of the mild virtues, which ihose who cultivate the stern and magnani mous virtues expect at their hands. After all, let it be remembered that we are not saying there are no objections to the diffusion of knowledge among the female sex. We would not hazard such a proposi tion respecting any thing ; but we are saying, that. | upon the whole, it is the best method of employing 1 time ; and that there arc fewer objections to it than i to any other method. There are, perhaps, 50,01 ■ j females in Great Britain, who are exempted b\ ci; I cumstances, from all necessary labor: hut ere -