FOREIGN- ASSOCIATION. guage as the introduction to much elegant literature ; to much indeed that is valu- able, but to more that is pernicious. But even this agreeable language, for the higher acquisition of which so many fin; portant sacrifices are made, so much do- mestic duty is relinquished, so much religious principle is hazarded, may be bought too aear. Even if this supreme excellence, the perfection of the Parisian accent, should obtain for an English lady the coveted distinction of being taken for a Frenchwoman ; does she not run some risk, even in her own country and her own home, from the habit of domes- ticating in our families persons of whom all she may -know is, that their accent is good ; of whose morals she knows little ; and of whose religion she knows nothing; except that, if they happen by great chance to have any, it is of a character hostile to her own. The only hope is, that the foreign teacher maycare so little about the matter, as never to introduce religion at all ; but this is not a very con-
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