are addressed, was about this time
at Ramsgate, on his return, as he professed, to Paris, when he was
recalled, as it should seem, to London, by the further pressure of
business now accumulated upon him.

[100-A] This probably alludes to some expression of the person to whom
the letters are addressed, in which he treated as common evils, things
upon which the letter writer was disposed to bestow a different
appellation.

EDITOR.

[133-A] This passage refers to letters written under a purpose of
suicide, and not intended to be opened till after the catastrophe.

POSTHUMOUS WORKS

OF THE

AUTHOR

OF A

VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

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VOL. IV.

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_LONDON:_

PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, NO. 72, ST. PAUL'S
CHURCH-YARD; AND G. G. AND J. ROBINSON,
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1798.

LETTERS

AND

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

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VOL. II.

CONTENTS.

Page
Letters 1
Letter on the Present Character of the French Nation 39
Fragment of Letters on the Management of Infants 55
Letters to Mr. Johnson 61
Extract of the Cave of Fancy, a Tale 99
On Poetry and our Relish for the Beauties of Nature 159
Hints 179

ERRATA.

Page 10, line 8, _for_ I write you, _read_ I write to you.
---- 20, -- 9, _read_ bring them to ----.
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LETTERS.

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LETTER LXVII.

September 27.

WHEN you receive this, I shall either have landed, or be hovering on the
British coast--your letter of the 18th decided me.

By what criterion of principle or affection, you term my questions
extraordinary and unnecessary, I cannot determine.--You desire me to
decide--I had decided. You must have had long ago two letters of mine,
from ------, to the same purport, to consider.--In these, God knows!
there was but too much affection, and the agonies of a distracted mind
were but too faithfully pourtrayed!--What more then had I to say?--The
negative was to come from you.--You had perpetually recurred to your
promi