OF FRENCH SOCIETY. 71 watchtower, to mark the battle, and tenderly seek to explore her husband so soon to bleed, -to all the Aspasias of Greece, to all the Du Deffands, the De l'Espinasses, the D'Epinays, to all the beau ideal of the fancy, and all the practical pollutions of the life, of the " bonnes societes" of the metropolis of France ? But, happily, we need not go back to ransack antiquity for examples in the finely imagined females ofTroy or Ithaca, nor for warnings to the polished, . but profligate' courtezans of Athens, nor to the criminal countesses of Paris ;- we may find instances of the one, and a complete contrast to the other, nearer home. We need go no further fbr the highest examples of female dignity, ta- lent, and worth, than are to be found in the private biography of our own country. We could produce no inconsiderable number in the highest rank of women, who, if their names are not blazoned in
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