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Rh If what I have written hould be read by parents, who are now going on in thoughtles extravagance, and anxious only that their daughters may be genteelly educated, let them conider to what orrows they expoe them; for I have not over-coloured the picture.

Though I warn parents to guard againt leaving their daughters to encounter o much miery; yet if a young woman falls into it, he ought not to be dicontented. Good mut ultimately arie from every thing, to thoe who look beyond this infancy of their being; and here the comfort of a good concience is our only table upport. The main buines of our lives is to learn