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( 9 ) think that learning in our ex is always united with tiff pedantry. They are ignorant and vain who make a boat of their qualifications; and it is thoe who pretend to the mot that are generally the leat endued with undertanding: Never, my dear Harriot, affect uperiority of knowledge; let your tile be always plain and familiar, but exempt from vulgarims; never make ue of a word you do not perfectly undertand: I have often bluhed for many a young lady, nay, many of the other ex too, who had introduced expreions quite foreign to their intended meaning: this downright ignorance proceeds from downright arrogance: I dare ay, my dear Harriot, knowing what an enemy I am to repetitions, will now turn critic and find faults with my downrights. But, take notice, that when a repetition enforces an affection, it is then, intead of being a fault, deemed a beauty; there are many tautologies in our poets, which, in a great meaure, add to their force and energy. I am proud to find my dear Harriot o correct in her pelling; there is nothing dignifies a female letter, more than this attention; a young lady hould always have her dictionary near her, and never commit a word to paper that he entertains the leat doubt of. It has been remarked by ome conceited, empty fools, that good pelling is not to be expected from the pens of young ladies; and why not? Do you not, my dear child, feel this