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EJMP.774.013
26 Jan 1774:11,12,13 (1/6)
[In long essay on women, middle of first column] . . . she
is a mere novice in the brighter qualifications requisite to
make a gentleman happy--such as a polite air, fashionable
dress, deep intrigue, ready dissimulation, coquettry or
prudism at her fingers ends just as it suits her turn; taste
for the Assembly-house; prerequisites for the ball room;
gust for parade, show and equipage, . . .
[1/3 down in second column:] Had she not some intrinsick
value, some surprising virtue, some fascination in her eye,
some odoriferous exhalation from her breath; by which, like
Orpheus with his Theban lute, she makes the world dance
after her . . .
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