muft mark our future fate, as we ourselves ordain :

"The Spirit walks of each departed day, "And smiles an Angel, or a Fury frowns."

BUT for a moment let us admit that confcience could be lulled to reft on beds of rofes, or that the wafte of time might not be deemed a vice; is there on earth a human being fo loft to every fenfe of its own dignity as to acquiefce in bare exiftence, and to look back upon the fum of that exiftence as a

blank? This laft argument appears

to me fo fully fufficient to awaken that noble pride, that true felfeftimation which Heaven has implanted in our fouls, for the great

purpose of exalting our nature above the fubordinate claffes of animals, who are debarred the glorious prerogative of looking for

ward with humble hope to an

happy immortality, that I should think any other incitement would be fuperfluous upon this subject; which I fhall therefore conclude with the interesting picture which the laft Author quoted above has given, of thofe happy few who

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have

have made a right ufe of that treafure that Heaven has been pleased to entrust them with.

"Where fhall I find him? Angels, tell me where !

Your golden wings now hov❜ring o'er him fhed

"Protection, now are waving in applause, "To that bleft Son of Forefight! Lord of Fate !

"That awful independent on To-morrow! "Whofe work is done-who triumphs in the past;

<< Whofe yesterdays look backwards with

a fmile,

Nor, like the Parthian, wound him as

they fly."

CON

CONCLUSION.

A

SI have now, though perhaps but faintly, touched upon

the duties most effential in the marriage-ftate, it appears to me unneceffary to purfue this work any farther; though I am certain there are many follies, not to give them a harsher name, incident to my fex, which are not even glanced at in thefe Effays. The moft glaring, perhaps, that has been left unnoticed, is the universal spirit of diffipation which feems to reign among all ranks of women. But though

though I have not particularly attacked this Arch-demon, this greatest enemy to domeftic happinefs, I hope I have in fome degree undermined his batteries, and fapped his intrenchments in the female heart. At least, I have offered to those who chufe to accept them, the powerful auxiliaries of Religion, Conjugal Affection, and Parental Love, to oppofe his force, and render them fuperior to his allurements; for thofe who ferve under the banner of these mild Virtues, will never fall a prey to the tyrannic power of Vice, how