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Title: Coelebs In Search of a Wife

Author: Hannah More

Release Date: April 4, 2010 [EBook #31879]

Language: English

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C[OE]LEBS

IN SEARCH OF A WIFE.

BY MRS. HANNAH MORE.

NEW YORK:
DERBY & JACKSON, 119 NASSAU STREET.
1858.

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"Among unequals what society
Can sort, what harmony or true delight?
Of fellowship, I speak, fit to participate
All rational enjoyment."

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PREFACE.

When I quitted home, on a little excursion in the spring of this present
year 1808, a thought struck me, which I began to put into immediate
execution. I determined to commit to paper any little circumstances that
might arise, and any conversations in which I might be engaged, when the
subject was at all important, though there might be nothing particularly
new or interesting in the discussion itself.

I fulfilled my intention as occasions arose to furnish me with
materials; and on my return to the North, in the autumn of this same
year, it was my amusement on my journey to look over and arrange these
papers.

As soon as I arrived at my native place, I lent my manuscript to a
confidential friend, as the shortest way of imparting to him whatever
had occurred to me during our separation, together with my reflections
on those occurrences. I took care to keep his expectations low, by
apprizing him, that in a tour from my house in Westmoreland to the house
of a friend in Hampshire, he must not look for adventures, but content
himself with the every-day details of common life, diversified only by
the different habits and tempers of the persons with whom I had
conversed.

He brought back my manuscript in a few days, with an earnest wish that I
would consent to its publication