says, that he agrees with me in that whole Discourse, excepting only the last Sentence, where I affirm the married State to be either an Heaven or an Hell.
Tom
has been at the charge of a Penny upon this occasion, to tell me, that by his Experience it is neither one nor the other, but rather that middle kind of State, commonly known by the Name of
Purgatory
.
The Fair Sex have likewise obliged me with their Reflections upon the same Discourse. A Lady, who calls herself
Euterpe
, and seems a Woman of Letters, asks me whether I am for establishing the
Salick
Law in every Family, and why it is not fit that a Woman who has Discretion and Learning should sit at the Helm, when the Husband is weak and illiterate? Another, of a quite contrary Character, subscribes herself