TO A YOUNG LADY; IN WHICH THE DUTIES AND CHARACTER OF WOMEN. ARE CONSIDERED, CHIEFLY WITH A. REFERENCE TO PREVAILING OPINIONS, JANE Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that Prov. xxxi. 30. PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HORST, RLES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1806. 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 error |