Te and weath are the strength and pursuit of ever? vie laten. Se must certainly produce MITY—SULA my must produce their de

Peness vibe wherever there is affcence; they me frny inset retter, and crustant dependants upon une asutter. Waa mas de gates of aties; profaseness gra a at the same time, and there they jointly ix zer eskurace: ather some continuance in their new estatustment, they sad their nests and propagate their species, they bacca ao qunous brood, but their genuine afspring. —SMITH'S LONGINUS,

Use of the most certain consequences of a very extended commerce, and of what is called the most advanced and poished state of society, is an universal passion for nches, which corrupts every sentiment of taste, nature, and virtue.-DR. GREGORY.

(5) That luxury, which began to spread after the restoration of King Charles the Second, hath increased ever since; hath descended from the highest to the lowest ranks of our people, and is become national! Now nothing can be more certain than this, that national luxury may in time establish national prostitution.-BOLINGBROKE on Parties.

Were a Lucian or a Voltaire to pay us a visit from Guinea or the Five Nations, what a picture of manners might he present to his countrymen on his return! Nor would exaggeration be necessary to render it hideous: a

plain, historical account of some of our fashionable duellists, gamblers, and adulterers (to name no more), would exhibit specimens of “brutish barbarity," such as might vie with any that ever appeared in Kamschatka or the land of the Hottentots!-DR. BEATTIE'S Essay on Truth.

It is not the necessity of the lower, but the luxury of the higher classes, which stands in the way of our great public interests.-DR. CHALMERS' Political Economy.

"In a

(14) Turn to the polished age of Louis XV. society," writes Marmontel, "where pleasure was the reigning object, it was natural that the female sex should possess a high degree of influence. They occupied, in fact, a more prominent part in the theatre of life than is usually assigned them: they were the arbiters not of public amusements only, but of literature and the arts-of celebrity, in short, of every kind. Their character was not, as is well known, improved by these circumstances; and it is certain, that from the character of the sovereign and the higher orders, the most dissolute and worthless of the sex became often the channel through which court favour was distributed."

(15) In consequence of the murder of that saint having been brought about by female agency, any woman who enters the chapel dedicated to him at Genoa, is, by a decree of the Pope, ipso facto, excommunicated.

(16) The subject of the Iliad, viz. the Trojan War, took its rise in the adultery of a woman; and as it had a female origin, so, too, was it protracted on account of another-a concubine of Achilles. The leading events of the Æneid

likewise point in the same direction: the adventurers in that poem are first involved at Carthage by the affair of the amorous Dido; their own women afterwards set fire to the fleet; and lastly, their struggles and disasters in the promised land have a similar origin:

"Causa tanti mali conjux iterum.”

(17) The mistress of Cethegus, a man very powerful in his day, may be said to have had, at one time, the whole power and patronage of the city at her disposal. The mistress of Verres, the prætor, had equal influence, and persons of worth and honour were obliged to court her smiles. This it was that made Cicero exclaim, in his famous oration," What a shame is it that a prætor should perform the functions of his office as it pleased a woman!"

"A man; no wo"Who is she?" re

In vain did the

(18) Who is she? a rajah was always in the habit of asking, whenever a calamity was related to him, however severe or however trivial. His attendants reported to him one morning that a labourer had fallen from a scaffold when working at his palace, and had broken his neck. "Who is she?" demanded the rajah. man, great prince," was the reply. peated the rajah, with increased anger. attendants assert the manhood of the labourer. "Bring me instant intelligence what woman caused this accident, or woe upon your heads!" exclaimed the prince. In an hour the active attendants returned, and prostrating themselves, cried out, "O wise and powerful prince, as the ill-fated labourer was working on the scaffold, he was attracted by the beauty of one of your highness's damsels, and gazing on her, lost his balance and fell to the ground."

"You hear now," said the prince,

no accident can hap

pen, without a woman being, in some way, an instrument." CAPT. SKINNER's Excursions in India.

(19) I am sorry to say it, but I have too often observed that fear as well as love is necessary on the lady's part, to make wedlock happy; and it will generally do it, if the man sets out with asserting his power and her dependance.-RICHARDSON's Elegant Epistles.

likewise point in the same direction: the a that poem are first involved at Carthage b the amorous Dido; their own women after to the fleet; and lastly, their struggles an the promised land have a similar origin:

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(18) Who is she? a rajah was always asking, whenever a calamity was related severe or however trivial. His attendant one morning that a labourer had falle when working at his palace, and had "Who is she?" demanded the rajah. man, great prince," was the reply. peated the rajah, with increased ange attendants assert the manhood of the me instant intelligence what woman c or woe upon your heads!" exclaim hour the active attendants selves, cried out,