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Title: The Young Maiden

Author: A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

Release Date: February 5, 2008 [eBook #24524]

Language: English

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THE YOUNG MAIDEN.

by

A. B. MUZZEY,

Author of The Young Man's Friend, Sunday School Guide, &C

"Young Men, and Maidens; * * *
Let them praise the name of the Lord."

Tenth Edition.

Boston
Wm. Crosby & H. P. Nichols,
111 Washington Street
1848.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by
A. B. Muzzey,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

Cambridge:
Metcalf and Company,
Printers to the University.

CONTENTS.

Chapter I.--The Capacities of Woman, page 5
Chapter II.--Female Influence, 30
Chapter III.--Female Education, 53
Chapter IV.--Home, 81
Chapter V.--Society, 107
Chapter VI.--Love, 136
Chapter VII.--Single Life, 151
Chapter VIII.--Reasons for Marriage, 163
Chapter IX.--Conditions of True Marriage, 191
Chapter X.--Society of Young Men, 205
Chapter XI.--First Love, 213
Chapter XII.--Conduct during Engagement, 222
Chapter XIII.--Trials of Woman, and her Solace, 237
Chapter XIV.--Encouragements, 255

DEDICATION.

TO THE
YOUNG MAIDENS OF OUR FAVORED UNION,
THIS VOLUME
IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,
BY THEIR FRIEND