Letters to a Young Lady, on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects to Which Is Prefixed, Strictures on Female Education, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Letters to a Young Lady, on a Variety of Useful and Interesting Subjects to Which Is Prefixed, Strictures on Female Education, Vol. 1 of 2

To your own fex, in particular, you have exhibited a mofi infiruétive and animating example. You have taught them by a filent, but imprefiive lan guage, to depend more for real in?u ence and efieem, on the mild, the foft, and the attractive graces, than on all the perifhable appendages of greatnefs, illufirious birth, political interference, or even the dazzling fplendours of a throne.

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