By a proper attention to your hufband, you will eafily discover the bent of his genius and inclinations. To that turn all your thoughts, and let your words and actions folely tend to that great point. The kindness of your attention will awaken his, and gratitude will ftrengthen his affection, imperceptibly even to himself.

Our firft Parent juftifies his fondness for Eve, to Raphael, upon this principle:

"Neither her outfide formed fo fair, &c. "So much delights me, as thofe graceful

acts,

"Thofe

"Thofe thoufand decencies, that daily flow "From all her words and actions mixed. at with love,

"And fweet compliance, which declare unfeigned

"Union of mind, or in us both one foul; Harmony to behold in wedded pair,

"More grateful than harmonious found to the ear."

In an age like this, when we may fuppofe that every young Lady deferves the epithet with which Adam addreffes his wife, Accomplished Eve, it must be lefs difficult than it might have been. for their female ancestors, to fe

cure the affections of a husband already prepoffeffed in their favour. Let them but exert the fame talents, with the fame defire of pleafing, which they fhewed before marriage and I venture to pronounce that they will fucceed.

A LOVE of power and authority is natural to men; and wherever this inclination is moft indulged, will be the fituation of their choice.

Every man ought to be the principal object of attention in his family; of course he fhould feel himself happier at home than in

any

any other place. It is, doubtlefs, the great business of a woman's life to render his home pleafing to her hufband; he will then delight in her fociety, and not feek abroad for alien amufements. A husband may, poffibly, in his daily excur fions, fee many women whom he thinks handfomer than his wife; but it is generally her fault if he meet with one that he thinks more amiable. A defire of pleafing very rarely fails of its effect; but in a wife, that defire must be managed with the niceft delicacy; it should appear rather in the refult, than in the

defign;

defign" not obvious, not obtrufive." Thefe petits foins are the beft fupplement to our great duties, and render the commerce of life delightful. Like an elegant def fert, they complete the feaft, and leave not a wifh unfatisfied..

WE have hitherto looked only on the pleafing fide of the tapestry, and feen Marriage in its most favourable light. Let us now turn the canvas, and take a view of its. defects.

LET us fuppofe, then, what I think the worst of all fituations,

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