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character she represented, she was always well dressed. The make of her mind very much contributed to the ornament of her body. This made every thing look native about her; her clothes were so exactly fitted, that every thing appeared, as it were, part of her person. Her most elegant deportment was owing to her manner, and not to her habit. Her beauty was full of attraction, but more of allurement. There was such a composure in her looks, and propriety in her dress, that you would think it impossible she should change the garb you one day saw her in for any thing so becoming, till you next day saw her in another.'

Female Worthies.



OLYMPIA,

A painter, in ancient Greece, of whom we find no other memorial, than that Autobolus was her scholar.

Abec. Pitt.



ORVAL (ANNE-ELEANOR DE BETHUNE D'), Abbess of Notre Dame du Val-de-Gif, in the Diocese of Paris;

A French lady, in the reign of Lewis XIV. celebrated for her learning and piety. She wrote many religious works, and died 1733, aged 76.

F. C.
P. PACHECO