Western Sun, Volume 2, Number 42, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 September 1809 — Page 4

-x' t)acc where the mother had foft-

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band.

FOR THE ARGUS.

Messrs. Printers,

fVrx Historical sketches, on Female In- In the reign of Tiberius, when a Jzfy l fluencc. heavy contribution was laid on the tpXpi ! The early ages of the world, pre- women they faught a man to defend Tent the female character in a itatc their caufc, but no man w ould conPOETICAL ASTLUM, of extreme humiliation. Sarah lent to real cm againtl thole who had

. was impenouliy commanded by the power oi hie and death, i nc. her hu (band to prepare entertain-, daughter of the celebrated Hortenment for the angel. Rebecca drew fms appeared. She revived the water for the fervant and for A. memory of her father's abilities;

u'.... ... . ... ri braham: & Rachel, when accoft. fupported with eloquence, argu-

' . y ed by Jacob, was in the field, alien- ment, and ability, her own caule lowing parody, uken from an ancien and that 0nuT fex. The triumentitled to a place in your paper, by mlcrt- perior jtrenglh? pritie or temper, in viers biufhed and revoked their ing it you will oblige oneft;x took advantage of the orders. Hortcnfia was conducted delicate dependence of the other, home in triumph, and had the honxtT. cr tt hattv and the virtue oi the latter were or of having given, in one day, to

t 11fT V , ... the roughness of the former. In man a pattern of eloquence, and to 1 Hail wedded Love Milton, Book IV l. Egypt and Perlia, the allconquer- tyrants a leffori of humanity. x150-a i. .- ing power jealoufy confined the But to the Roman empire, or to t1 Our Maker bids increase; who b.d .bft..n . wmn fro,n knowledge & fociai the refinements of polilhed fociety, But our Deftroyer, foe to Goa and man ;nterc0urse, leaving them folely to we are not confined, in the diieusMilton Book IV- l. 748 the caprice and command of their lion of this fubject ; for, after the j tt a vunn .r.ncf wmi individual lords. In Greece no- fubverlion of the empire, the barITmu tbeso-M.Itonthoureafonstwell, in dUmation but barians, who fprcad conflagration I Use whence this pleafing hope, this fond valor and publ;ck eloquences As and ruin who trampled on the i deure, nature hnrl HiCnnnliFipH thf fnir fv monuments of art who fourned ' i

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i nis longing aicer lonicming unpoucs. u , for both, they ware regarded as be- the appendages oi elegance and Or whence this fecret dread, this inward neath the notice of heroes and ora- pleafure, introduced into Europe horror, tors. Homer conliders Helen (the that (pint of gallantry and fubordiOf dying unefpous'd Why fhrinks the wife of Menelaus) of little other nation to female merit, which now foul value than as a part of the goods fo eminently characterises their Back on itfelf, and forties at virginity ? ftolen with her ; and the fame au- amufements and their courts. 'Tis inHiuct, fatal inftinct lUrs within us thor celebrates Penelope for refu- That fyftem which now teaches 'Tis nature's felf.that points out an alliance ling fuitors in the abfence of Ulys- to confider the -woman as equal ; And intimates a Huiband to the fex. fes ; not because The loved her which powerfully influences cusMarriage! thou plcafing, yet anxious tho't, hufband fupremely, but because, toms manners and policy, in both ti , r c j rhrr,, J in thus doing, ilic preferved to his hemilpheres .which exalts the luu. Thro' what new fcenes and changes roust fam-y by foftcning the cm. .'wenpass" mr r t her father, Icanus. pire of force ; which mingles poll unchanging ttate, in profpect lies be- The earJy agcs of the Roman Hteness with the life ot the fword ; orcs me; empire prefents the lame fubprdi- which delights in protecting the But fliadows, clouds and darkness rest up- nali0n of the fex but after the weak, and in confering that imporon it ; conquest of Carthage, the impro- tance which nature or fortune have Here will I hold If Nature prompts the ving Rate of fociety, and of fcience, denied, was first introduced from

; wifli, brought them iorwardto a degree me irozen more oi tne Dame ana (And that flie does is plain from all her of eminence; and for many ages from the lavage forest of the north. works) . the Roman women were refpected The barbarians who over run , Our duty and interest, bids indulge It, throughout the world. Their vie- Europe, carried their opinion with For the great end of Nature's laws is bliss: torious hufbands, at their return their armes and thus the influence But yet in wedlock, woman must obev- from, battle, reviiited them with pi the women is dilcovcrcd to Pm weary of these doubts, the Pries't ihall x P0?' I1 Iatid at their feet have originated; not in the clepra- ' i cnd ,c the (pods of triumph, and endear- vity of fenfe nor in the caprice ot vr ' n i r t " i 1 ecl themfelves in their eyes, by the fancy ; but in the natural untaught or rafhly do I venture loss and gam, wounds which th nianncrs of barbarians. Bondage and plealure meet my thoughts ror thcm and for llie ftatc T, influence thus crained arid 5

t i t L 3t nCe" r manners Teverely virtuous, avowed began to extend itfelf, and j I wed my liberty is gone forever ; tie Roman woman joined an en- to form a foundation upon fcience V ' "Hiir Inntunpcc frnm tun itPIf rrurl ti ft . f I n i" 1 . . . I i i . .....11

--w. ..-rr.w ...... vu-.u , itauiaiiju iuvc ui men couiiiry. anu reiigcon ; upon iiiciuhi us wen, Love fust ilull recompencc my loss of On the death of Brutus they all as perlonal attractions. Under the freedom; clothed themfelves in mourning, aufpices of an improving itate of And when my charmes Ihall fade away, my In the time of Coriolanus they fa- fociety and of laws highly favoraeyes ved the city. That incenfed war- ble to the fex, have flourilhed that Themfelves grow dim my flature bent rior who had infulted the fenateand limplicity which is the best index with years, priclls, and who was fuperior even of an elegant and cultivated mind, Thm L-An,-u r. a - to the pride of pardoning could that tafle for refined literature.

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itenew j .nimtalmajihal race. decreed them public thanks, or- been graced by a long train of il. For fle at ti)e Oiiice of the Weilern Sun. dered the men to give thcifi place lullrious females. Thrones have THE PERPKTUAL ALMANAC, on all occalions, and caufeel an al- owed their fignificance and dia- - 1 - Cs.iu ur lo be .erected fur them in the (CcLdsdm sscorj pac.J

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