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ILDEN LIBRAR

1895

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IN ORDER TO CULTIVATE THE PRINCIPLES OF VIRTUE AND RELIGION IN
THE MINDS OF THE YOUTH OF BOTH SEXES.

A NARRATIVE

WHICH HAS IT'S FOUNDATION IN TRUTH; AND AT THE SAME TIME THAT IT
AGREEABLY ENTERTAINS, BY A VARIETY OF CURIOUS AND AFFECTING IN-
CIDENTS, IS ENTIRELY DIVESTED OF ALL THOSE IMAGES, WHICH IN TOO
MANY PIECES CALCULATED FOR AMUSEMENT ONLY, TEND TO INFLAME THE
MINDS THEY SHOULD INSTRUCT.

TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,

EXTRACTS FROM SEVERAL CURIOUS LETTERS,
WRITTEN TO THE EDITOR ON THE SUBJECT.

BY MR. SAMUEL RICHARDSON.

IN FOUR VOLUMES.

LONDON:

Printed for HARRISON and Co. No. 18, Paternofter Row.

M DCC LXXXV.

C.

THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR. LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

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Preface by the Editor.

F to divert and entertain, and at the fame time, to inftruct, and improve the minds of the YOUTH of both fexes:

If to inculcate religion and morality in fo eafy and agreeable a manner, as fhall render them equally delightful and profitable:

If to fet forth, in the most exemplary lights, the parental, the filial, and the focial duties:

If to paint VICE in it's proper colours, to make it defervedly odious and to fet VIRTUE in it's own amiable light, to make it lovely:

If to draw characters with juftness, and to fupport them diffinatly: If to raise a diftrefs from natural caufes, and excite compaffion from just ones:

If to teach the man of fortune how to ufe it; the man of paffion, how to fubdue it; and the man of intrigue, how gracefully, and with honour to himself, to reclaim:

If to give practical examples, worthy to be followed in the most critical and affecting cafes, by the virgin, the bride, and the wife:

If to effect all these good ends, without raifing a fingle idea throughout the whole that shall shock the exacteft purity, even in the warmest of those instances where purity would be most apprehenfive:

If these be laudable recommendations, the Editor of the following Letters, which have their foundation in truth, ventures to affert that all these ends are obtained here; and writes with the more affurance of fuccefs, as an Editor may be allowed to judge with more impartiality than is often to be found in an Author,

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