Letters to a Young Lady: In Which the Duties and Character of Women Are Considered, Chiefly with a Reference to Prevailing Opinions (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Jane West

9780331594232: Letters to a Young Lady: In Which the Duties and Character of Women Are Considered, Chiefly with a Reference to Prevailing Opinions (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0331594234 ISBN 13: 9780331594232

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Excerpt from Letters to a Young Lady: In Which the Duties and Character of Women Are Considered, Chiefly With a Reference to Prevailing Opinions

This Obfervation mull be taken with exceptions: among which, D cjrnn uc s Tract on the Duties of Women holds a pre-eiuineut rank.readers Of her own fear, and fiation, with fome admonitory refle�tions on thofe points which appeared to her of fuperi-o or importance, either from their having been omitted or flightly difcuffed by other writers, or from the prevailing temper of the times requiring them to be recalled to gener al attention, and, if pollible, placed in a novel and therefore more attractive point of View. To arref't the attention Of thofe who'are terrified by the uniform auf'terity of a melan choly cenfor, the fombre hue of precept will be relieved by fuch ornaments as can be adopted without injury to the main defign. Perhaps this laft intimation is but a fpecious apolo gy for a manner of writing, at firft natural, and now fo con firmed by habit, that a determination to avoid it would cer tainly give a difgufting fiiffnefs to the following lu'cubra tlons.

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