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Rh As thee volumes are o frequently put into the hands of young people, I have taken more notice of them than, trictly peaking, they deerve; but as they have contributed to vitiate the tate, and enervate the undertanding of many of my fellow-creatures, I could not pas them ilently over.

paternal olicitute pervades Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters, that I enter on the tak of criticim with affectionate repect; but as this little volume has many attractions to recommend it to the notice of the mot repectable part of my ex, I cannot ilently pas over arguments that o peciouly upport opinions which, I think, have had the mot baneful effect on the morals and manners of the female world.

His eay familiar tyle is particularly uited to the tenor of his advice, and the melancholy tendernes which his repect for the memory of a beloved wife, diffues through the whole work, renders it very intereting; yet there is a degree of concie elegance conpicuous in many paages that diturbs this ympathy; and we pop on the author, when we only expected to meet the–father.

Beides, having two objects in view, he eldom adhered teadily to either; for wihing to make his daughters amiable, and fearing let unhappines hould only be the conequence, of intilling entiments that might draw them out of the track of common life without enabling them to act with&ensp;