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Excerpt from Letters to a Young Lady, Vol. 1 of 2: On a Variety to Useful and Interesting Subjects; Calculated to Improve the Heart, Form the Manners, and Enlighten the Understanding
In a period of falfe refinement, when conjugal fidel ity has not appeared a favourite virtue, your Majeliy has been a model of as delicate an attachment, as ever graced the purelt ages of antiquity, or occurs in the voluminous annals of the world And in an era of fafiidious affluence, when Chrifhanity has been under mined by the fubtilty of fceptics, and fiill more difgra ccd by the lukewarmnefs and irregularities of its pro fefl'ors when its grand bulwark, the chriflian fab bath, has been daringly attacked, particularly amonglt the higher ranks of people, by many kinds of licen tious amufement, you have done every thing in co-op eration with our beloved Monarch, to flop the progrefs of the evil, that could relult from virtuous precepts, or the unfullied luitre of example. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
