But that retiring modesty which adorns your character, admonishes me not to soil with fulsome eulogy, the lustre of those talents, of those elegant, colloquial accomplishments, and those revered virtues which enlighten and enliven the female circle in which you preside. […] Such is the origin of those laws which caused men to mark their property by boundaries. […] Jacob carried away those of his father-in-law Laban. […] We shall speak only of those best known. […] The Romans imitated them, and gave to those temples the name of Asylums.