THE LADIES' FRIEND.

THE EMPIRE OF WOMAN.
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In the education of females, you plant the
oak round which the ivy twines and aspires;
that is, the example which irresistabiy at


tracts, nay commands, in the great cause of
virtue and religion. That women are sus-
ceptble of stronger and more lasting i'm


presslons than men, we see, by the almost
hvariable constancy and fidelity Of their at


'achments-even the slight tncture of the
serious, which their fashionable education
imparts, is seldom obliterated by all the
hurry and confusion of life Of gaiety and
pleasure. You will rarely, perhaps never,
see woman, to whom any idea of religion
mas been communicated, entirely abandon a
compliance with any of its external duties or
insult its principles by the language of pro-
iiaheness and contempt.--There is "a tervor
III the soil of a female heart, which never
misses sending up what it receives, be the
culture ever SO scanty; when abundant, the
,e'urh is invariably glorious--we have num-
91stiess 1s, examples of women in the holy
;rrlthss, and i'll every period of Christian
Wy tnat hills us with astonishment, at the
sacred sublimity and heroism of their char
acleis-and the history of the Pagan world,
psSlrecularly the austere and virtuous days
" m We Grccian and Roman commonwealth,
tsu ano'u likewise the most illustrious proof
sna aas 'ne sex when properly directed can be
a''n s .nah the rival of man, in every action,
s,Ne,y s,t I. sacrifice that goes to dignity and ex-


~. ehe human name. From the very ap-
pearance Of female depravity we recoil as
,uSn something shocking and unnatural;
sa %hle men the most immoral and abandon
" are are always overawed, and not unfrequent-
exos, - reformed, by the contemplation of female
e,.ss sehehce. Even the most proflieate lib


1i1psS- alproach II with a secret reverenc.