And what dilates the pow’rs must needs refine.”
INTRODUCTION.
“Without women, the beginning of our life would be helpless; the middle, devoid of pleasure, and the end of consolation.”
“The very first
Of human life must spring from woman’s breast,
Your first small words are taught you from her lips,
Your first tears quench’d by her, and your last sighs
Too often breathed out in a woman’s hearing,
When men have shrunk from the ignoble care