TO A YOUNG LADY, ON A VARIETY OF USEFUL AND INTERESTING SUBJECTS. CALCULATED TO IMPROVE THE HEART, TO FORM THE STANDING. "That our Daughters may be as polished Corners of the BY THE REV. JOHN BENNETT. SEVENTH AMERICAN EDITION, CORRECTED. Philadelphia: PUBLISHED BY ANTHONY FINLEY, At the White-House, North-east corner of Chesnut and Fourth Streets. WILLIAM FRY, PRINTER. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following LETTERS have long lain by the author in a state of neglect; indeed of uncertainty, whether the publication of them would do any credit to himself, or service to the world. Nor does he think, that he should ever have presumed to expose them before the formidable tribunal of the public, unless animated by the name of the very exalted and amiable personage, to whom they are addressed.* If they deserve no fame, they ought, however, in his opinion, to be branded with no malignant or invidious censure, as their intention is really to serve the fairest and most amiable part of the creation; to rouse young ladies from a vacant or insipid life, into one of usefulness and laudable exertion-to recal them from visionary novels and romances, into solid reading and reflection-and from the criminal absurdities of fashion, to the simplicity of nature and the dignity of virtue. He has attempted a method of uniting, in their character, the graces with the virtues; an amiable *This Work was originally dedicated to the Queen of England. |