Love, like the seed of the Auricula, must be sown on snow; both are warmed through by ice itself, and then spring up so much the more vigorously.--You must never give yourselves as a mere present, but as a lady's acknowledgment of thanks to her knight.--You receive and deserve exactly as much respect as you demand, and you can, though you should be _alloyed_ as much as you pleased, take your mint-die or coin-stamp out of your pocket and coin yourselves therewith as a _lady d'or_ for one gentleman, or as a miserable little _fat-mannikin_[58] for another.--A rake indicates in a company, like a measurer of the purity of the air, by the different degrees of his boldness, the different degrees of female merit, only in inverse relation.... Even if it did not belong to the female point of honor, one must still desire, merely for the sake of having one trouble more,--because, my sex thinks on this subject entirely with me, who desire a daughter from no recruiting-house of sons-in-law, where at least the parents have not something against me;--and let it hereby be known (therefore I do not insert it in the newspaper) that I expect of parents, who in their auction-room of daughters, in their love-inoculation-hospital, have one or two subjects to dispose of, and to whom a Mining-Superintendent, Justice, Music-Master, and Biographer--such may be my few offices--is no too contemptible match,--that I [I repeat] expect of such parents, that (if they mean the thing seriously) they will at least forbid me the house or frequent correspondence:--that enlivens sons-in-law. 30. DOG-POST-DAY. Letters.