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Avill do without, willingly, in tlie same cause. Hut his daughters their marriage may depend upon it: and his wife, who is unable to enter into or understand the objects for which these sacrifices are madewho, if she thought them worth any sacrifice, would think so on trust, and solely for his sakewho can participate in none of the enthusiasm or the self-approbation he himself may feel, while the things which he is disposed to sacrifice are all in all to her; will not the best and most unselfish man hesitate the longest before bringing on her this conse­quence? If it be not the comforts of life, but only social consideration, that is at stake, the burthen upon his conscience and feelings is still very severe. "Whoever has a wife and children has given hostages to Mrs. Grundy. The appro­bation of that potentate may be a matter of in­difference to him, but it is of great importance to his wife. The man himself may be above opinion, or may find sufficient compensation in the opinion of those of his own way of thinking. Hut to the women connected with him, he can offer no compensation. The almost invariable tendency of the wife to place her influence in the same scale with social consideration, is sometimes made a reproach to women, and represented as a peculiar trait of feebleness and childishness of character in them: surely with great injustice.