Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1816-04-17

" c"' sor's. ihelr lire rs purer; their
cay is more refined. The difference. |,
lh,nk, may be about the same that there i
between air ami ether, between culinary
aud electrical fire. The ETHEREAL shirt !
not gwen perhaps in so large a portion to
women as to men but it is more suitable.
IL Is inner spirit. Let woman of fancy
ne warm In conversation, she shall produce
huodred charming images, among which
there shall not be one indicate or coarse.
Warm man on the same subject. he
will possibly find stronger allusions' I'm,
they shall neither be so brilliant nor ca
chaste.
As to sracefulness of expression. it be-
longs almost exclusively to women.
But meny you sayhave sounder judgments.
mat they unquestionably have; and for
that, confess, | never could see but one
reason, the difference of education At
The aye OF Is, girls are every where SUPERIOR
to boys. AT ii boy begins to get some
| advantage over girl; and he continues
10 Improve, by means of an education. t;lI
three or four-and-twenty, possibly thirty.
| Tier education. such as it is, is over at "a
lie has all the fountains of knowledge omen.
| ea TO him interest TO stimulate him to act
his part; rivals to emulate opponents to
| conquer. His talents are always nm tho
stretch. To this he adds the ADVANTAGE oI
travel and even fhe should not 90 abroad.
he can enter into all infinite number of
houses frequently, when she can be hermit.
yea TO go into but few. A sound Judgment
cannot he formed but by continual exer.
cise, anu frequent comparisons. 1t is i'm
possible for woman tn have these adyan.
tages and thence, believe, the princ;nal
cause OF the lnieriority of their judgments.
ihe llvellness OF their fancies and tboir
ieeilngs, you will say, contributes aIso I'm
weaken their powers of Judging. That
probably does amount to somethino. hnt
education must be the grand cause for how
many men are there among your acoua;n.
lance, who join solid judgments to fine feel
lngs and warm imasinations.
lake mau and woman who have neyer
been out of the village in which thew were
born, and neither of whom knows how n
read | question very much if his Jiscro ~
tive faculties will be found to be STRONGER
than hers.
AS Judgment then can come but from
knowledge, l. will readily agree, that the
huinOer OF women who have solid Iudg-
ment is very small. But if I do not con
tend tor them on this point as equal to men.
believe you will not dispute the sunerior
sensloillty OF their souls. Their feeIinps
are certainly more exquisite than those of
men; and their sentiments greater and
more refined. Though the severity. i'll
temper, neglect and perfily of men. often
force women to have recourse TO dissimu-
latlon. yet when they have noble Character
to deal with, how sincere and ardent ic
their love how delicate and solid their ar
tachment! Woman is not near so seIfsb
a creature as man. When man is in
love, the object of his passion is himself
When woman is enamoured of a man
she forgets herself, the world, and all that
1T contains, and wishes to exist only for the
object of her affection. How few mon
make any violent sacrifice of fortune and
honor to noble, pure, and disinterested mo.
tives
A man mounts breach he braves dan
ger and obtains a victory. This is oIor;omo
and great. He has served his counfrv. Ie
mas mas acquired lame. peferment, riches.-
" nereVer he appears, respect awaits him,
ana theatres receive him with bursts of an.
piause. Ills glory dies not with him. His
tory preserves his memory from oblivion.
That thought cheers his dying hour; and
his last words, pronounced with feeble
PLEASURE are, g shall not all die.'
A woman sends her husband TO the ,var
she lived but in that husband. Her souI
goes with him. She trembIes for the dan.
gers OF the sea she trembles for the dan.
gers OF the land. Every bilow that sweIjs.
she thinks is to be his tomb every ball thai
iiies,she ilnagiues is directed against him
brilliant capital appears to her dreary
desert; her universe was a man; and that
mans Ut, her terrors tell her, is in dan.
ger. Her days are days of sorrow her
nights are sleepess nights. Her mornings
she sits immoveaale, in the dignity and
comPosure of grief, like Agrippina in her
char; and when at night she seeks repose.
rePose has fed her couch the silent tears
steal down her cheek, and wet her n;lIow
or II by chance exhausted, nature finds an
hours slumber her fancy, sickened nv ber
diStempered soul, sees in that sleep bleed
ing lover or his mangled CORPSE. Time
pa 'ses. and her grief increases till worn
OUT at length by too much tenderness, she
falls the victim Of too exquisite sensibili-
ty, and sinks with sorrow TO the prave
Cold and unieeIing reader, fsucb thm
art these are not pictures of nv creation.
They are neither changed nor embellisheJ
but copied faithfully from nature.
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