… same Splendour and Cheerfulness through the intellectual Oeconomy, that the celestial Bodies diffuse over the material Part of the Creation. Without them, we might, indeed, Contend , Destroy , and Triumph over one another. Fraud and … applied more assiduously than my self to the Study of the Fair Sex , and I aver it with the greatest Simplicity of Heart, that I have not only found the most engaging and most amiable, but also the most generous and most heroick Qualities … Disinterestedness , and Fervour in their Friendships, than in those of our own Sex, tho I have been very careful, and particularly happy in the Choice of my Acquaintance. … "It is the Conversation of Women that gives a proper Biass to …