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TO

A YOUNG LADY;

IN WHICH

THE DUTIES AND CHARACTER OF WOMEN.

ARE CONSIDERED,

CHIEFLY WITH

A. REFERENCE TO PREVAILING OPINIONS,

JANE
BY MRS. WEST,
AUTHOR OF “ LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN," &c.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that
feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

Prov. xxxi. 30.

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PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HORST, RLES, AND ORME,

PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1806.
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BJ 1681

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V.3

R. Taylor and Co. 38, Shoe-Lanka

9-17-47

LETTERS,

&c. &c. &c.

LETTER XI.

On Conversation, Society, and Friendship.

MY DEAR MISS M

Two advantages are annexed to literary pursuits ; first, as they tend to improve those wonderful faculties by which we are distinguished from the brute creation, to our own comfort; and, secondly, as knowledge is calculated to make us more agreeable and pleasing in the eyes of our fellow,

creatures.

It has always been the unfortunate

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