Yet "feminine" would be an improvement, as then the sense too would be antithetic.

However, the sound is sufficient, and modern rhetoric possesses the virtue of economy.
Ib.p.

27.
So with the Tinker; I would give him the care of kettles, but I would not give him 'the cure of souls'.

So long as he attended to the management and mending of his pots and pans, I would wish success to his ministry: but when he came to declare 'himself' a "chosen vessel," and demand permission to take the souls of the people into his holy keeping, I should think that, instead of a 'licence', it would be more humane and more prudent to give him a passport to St.Luke's.

Depend upon it, such men were never sent by Providence to rule or to regulate mankind.
Whoo! Bounteous Providence that always looks at the body clothes and the parents' equipage before it picks out the proper soul for the baby! Ho! the Duchess of Manchester is in labour:--quick, Raphael, or Uriel, bring a soul out of the Numa bin, a young Lycurgus.