Ebook The Lady's Pocket Library

Men, on the contrary, are formed for the more public exhibitions on the great theatre of human life. Like the stronger and more substantial wares, they derive no injury, and lose no polish, by being always exposed, and engaged in the con stant commerce of the world. It is their pro per element, where they respire their natural air, and exert their noblest powers, in si tions which call them into action. They in tended by Providence for the' bustling scenes of life — to appear terrible in arms, useful in com merce, shining in councils.