Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-09-14

ou'i, - SshfraiiY accurate; The, though
always ilsveiy, is often incorrect. He
Teens iofined for bufnefs abroad fle 20
prelide over The houlehold at home.
fos eentemplation he, and eaioMr fsruea,
For./Syeetue/s .@e, u yeefl-alfrat7Iue gyaee.
MILroH.
Ihefe diiipa endowments of BODY and
nind, In the two fexes, were conferred by
nature herielf and iehifory of our fse- 3
cies, IN All ages, confirms it. In favaoe
nations, man, indeed takes an pngenerous
adyantase OF his .iuPsriori,y, and,eompels
his he'psnate 10 undergo every kind Of
dfuagefy. In eiyilized nations, wolnaa
IS exaltedinto the companion and the friend.
and iooshes Our idrfows, and heightens our
plealares, by participation. lIcrellc atts in
her proper tphere. Here the is the de-
hsH Of cur tex, and the glory Of her own.
ard the deareAtribHse OF cur aasStioDs IS
the iinaileisrecompenfe with which we can
reward he, virtues.
In the age Of chivalry, FRI arole thar
asiurd alteration Of TIE fex, which was
Carried to icngths little fhort of idolatry.
and which is 70 admirably ridiculed hy
CFsv ANTss, ia his inimisable romance.
This fPirit defended from generation to
generation, and fill tinetures the manners
OF modern Europe and our own. Fires
and darts, flames and arrows, continue
fill TO be played off, in fearful corrufca..
tons, by The Gonneteers of the age ; the
lover is Fill the fave of his miareis: and
fatters her vanity at the expence of her
understanding. Whit this abfurd incente
is offered at the ihrine Of female beauty.
we are not TO be {urprized that we meet
with 10 much folly and aGeetation in the
Tex, and that not sasished with the noble
Pferogatiye Of being wives and mothers,
they nuR, foriooth, become philofothersi
Il ihofe ladies, who are defirous of AT
raining this 5awial p,r-ruueuee, were
ieniible how mach they lofe in the attempt,
and how defpicabie, in our eyes, the
character of learned woman, they warld
lay aiida 70 pitiful an ambition. NOT
that learning itielf is defpicabse, bur The
affedation of it is truly 70, which is the
utmoit any woman can reafonably hope TO
arrive at, 70 rugged is the path, 70 latori-
GUS the aicent, and 20 inadequate are the
powers with which nature has feen Gt 70
furniin the TEX for this purpofe. But the
Ehilofophy which folne Of them have been
.taughtto admire, is in no manner connect
cd with real learning, but is the offspring
of vanity and prelu.nption, equally ridi-
culed for its folly, and abhorred for its
.pfoAigacy, by the truly wife in all ages.
IL teaches, that charity is no virtue, that
marriage is an evil, with many fmilar ats
ilrdities, which, if universally embraced,
would makeeye man knave, and every
woman no better tlan fhe ihould be.
Theconteh for fupe.iority between the
fexes is abfurd in the extreme. They are
both hyperion, when they fiji with dignity
the respective fations aligned them by
Providence. AS they cannot equal us In
flrength of mind or perfon, and ii thew
could, would loofe more than half their
charms 10 we cannot equal THEM in
hyelinefs of fancy, agrecableneis Of con-
yeriation, delicscy of feeling, and con.
fancy of affection. Both are depsndene
on each other for happiness, and If men are
the Lords, women are, douOtleis, the. La
DIES of the creation.
The only right woman of good, .lnfe
(which is the moi valuable kind of fenfe,
whether in man or woman) would with 10
exerciie, is the right OF uGng her influence
to encreafc Der own happiness, by encreas-
ing that of all aTound her. Every other
right ihe will leave 10 the difcuaion of
phiiofcphifts, and to. the practice Of the
WoLsroNEeRAsTs, WJLLrAMs's, Ia
LIENS, RoLAHps, and other utilized fr-
maies, who, for'fhe ambition Of fame, are
wiling to hazard infau1y.