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Title: Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: July 24, 2008 [EBook #26117]

Language: English

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SKETCHES OF
THE FAIR SEX,

IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED
RULES FOR DETERMINING
THE PRECISE FIGURE, THE DEGREE OF BEAUTY,
THE HABITS, AND THE AGE
OF WOMEN,

NOTWITHSTANDING THE AIDS AND DISGUISE
OF DRESS.

BOSTON:
THEODORE ABBOT,
388 WASHINGTON ST.

1841.

Entered according to act of congress, in the year 1841, by

THEODORE ABBOT,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

In the following Pages,

It is our design to present a pleasing and interesting miscellany, which
will serve to beguile the leisure hour, and will at the same time couple
instruction with amusement. We have used but little method in the
arrangement: Choosing rather to furnish the reader with a rich profusion
of narratives and anecdotes, all tending to illustrate the

FEMALE CHARACTER,

to display its delicacy, its sweetness, its gentle or sometimes heroic
virtues, its amiable weaknesses, and strange defects--than to attempt an
accurate analysis of the hardest subject man ever attempted to master,
viz--WOMAN.

It will be seen that we do not set down Woman as a cipher in the account
of human beings. We accord to her her full share of importance in the
world, and we have not attempted to relieve her from a sense of her
responsibility as an accountable being. Above all, we have not failed to
impress upon her the obligations she is under to CHRISTIANITY, whose
benign influences have raised her to be the companion and bosom-friend
of man, instead of his mere handmaid and dependant. It is religion that
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