や Σ 88 বিবিধ প্ৰবন্ধ । রীতির উৎকর্ষতা কি উজ্জ্বলব্ধপে উপলব্ধি করিয়াছেন, তাহা ঐ উক্তি পাঠ করিলে পাঠকবর্গ প্ৰতীতি করিতে সক্ষম হইবেন । সতীত্ব রক্ষার সঙ্গে স্ত্রীলোকের স্বাধীনতা যত দূর থাকিতে পারে, সেরূপ স্বাধীনতা তাহাদিগের থাকা কৰ্ত্তব্য । এ বিষয়ে প্ৰাচীন ভারতবর্ষে যে নিয়ম প্ৰচলিত ছিল, তাহা সর্বোৎকৃষ্ট বলিয়া উপলব্ধি হয়। প্রাচীন কালে கம்ய -- misery in Europe, than has ever obtained, at least among the middle and lower ranks, in the East. The enormous mass of fcmale profligacy, whicle overspreads all our towns, is there almost unknown. From the seclusion of the harem have in the middle classes, flowed a purer manners and a more elevated charac ter than has resulted from the constant intermixture of the sexes, and the vehement passions to which it gives rise. It is this simplicity and honesty of disposition joined to the unaffected dovotion and martial qualities by which they are distinguished, which has blinded so many European travellers of the highest talents and discernment to the devastating cffects of Asiatic government, and the ruinous consequences, which have flowed, particularly during the declino of the IPersian and Turkish empires from the weakencd authority of the throne, the deplorable contests between the princes of the same family, and the general oppression which the Pashas have exercised in the independent sovereignties which they have erected in many of the provinces of these vast cmpires. ALISON. Oh what a pure and sacred thing, Is beauty curtaincd from the sight Of the gross world illumining One only mansion with her light Unscon by man's disturbing eye, The flbwer that blooms beneath thc sea Too deep for Sunbeaks கீ) not lie Hi«l in ımoı e clıasto obsegity. MooRE.
