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Title: Essays on Various Subjects
Principally Designed for Young Ladies

Author: Hannah More

Release Date: October 21, 2006 [EBook #19595]

Language: English

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ESSAYS
FOR
YOUNG LADIES.

ESSAYS
ON
VARIOUS SUBJECTS,
Principally designed for
YOUNG LADIES.

AS for you, I shall advise you in a few words: aspire only to
those virtues that are PECULIAR TO YOUR SEX; follow your natural
modesty, and think it your greatest commendation not to be talked
of one way or the other.

_Oration of Pericles to the Athenian Women._

LONDON:
Printed for J. WILKIE, in St. Paul's Church-Yard;
and T. CADELL, in the Strand.
MDCCLXXVII.

TO
MRS. MONTAGU.

MADAM,

IF you were only one of the finest writers of your time, you would
probably have escaped the trouble of this address, which is drawn on
you, less by the lustre of your understanding, than by the amiable
qualities of your heart.

AS the following pages are written with an humble but earnest wish, to
promote the interests of virtue, as far as the very limited abilities
of the author allow; there is, I flatter myself, a peculiar propriety in
inscribing them to you, Madam, who, while your works convey instruction
and delight to the best-informed of the other sex, furnish, by your
conduct, an admirable pattern of life and manners to your own. And I can
with truth remark, that those graces of conversation, which would be the
first praise of almost any other character, constitute but an inferior
part of yours.

I am, MADAM,
With the highest esteem,
Your most obedient
Humble Servant,

_Bristol_, HANNAH MORE.
_May 20, 1777._

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION Page 1
ON DISSIPATION 15
ON CONVERSATION 37
ON ENVY 63
ON SENTIMENTAL CONNEXIONS