Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
Of Paradise that has surviv'd the Fall!
Thou art not known where PLEASURE is ador'd,
That reeling Goddess with the zoneless waist :
Forsaking thee, what shipwreck have we made
Of honour, dignity, and fair renown!

The Hope and Expectation of the Time
Should not so lavish of their presence be,

Nor so enfeoff'd to Popularity,

That being nightly swallow'd by Men's eyes,
They're surfeited with honey, and begin

To loathe the taste of sweetness.

COWPER.

SHAKSPEARE.

Address to women of rank and fortune, on the

effects of their influence on society. - Sugges-

tions for the exertion of it in various instances.

CHAP. II.

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On the education of women. - The prevailing

system tends to establish the errors which it

ought to correct. - Dangers arising from an

excessive cultivation of the arts........

CHAP. III.

External improvement. Children's balls.

French governesses..

CHAP. IV.

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43

Comparison of the mode of female education in

the last age with the present.

70

Page

CHAP. V.

On the religious employment of time. On the

manner in which holidays are passed.

- Self-

ishness and inconsideration considered. - Dan-

gers arising from the world......

CHAP. VI.

ON THE EARLY FORMING OF HABITS.

On the necessity of forming the judgment to

direct those habits........

CHAP. VII.

Filial obedience not the character of the age.

A comparison with the preceding age in this

respect. Those who cultivate the mind ad-

vised to study the nature of the soil. - Unpro-

mising children often make strong characters.

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98

Teachers too apt to devote their pains

almost exclusively to children of parts.......... 109

CHAP. VIII.

On female study, and initiation into knowledge.

- Error of cultivating the imagination to the

neglect of the judgment. - Books of reasoning

recommended.

.................

126

CHAP. IX.

On the religious and moral use of history and

142

CHAP. X.

On the use of definitions, and the moral benefits

of accuracy in language...............

158

Page

On religion.

CHAP. XI.

The necessity and duty of early

instruction shown by analogy with human learn-

ing......

CHAP. XII.

On the manner of instructing young persons in

religion. - General remarks on the genius of

Christianity..........................................

CHAP. XIII.

166

Hints suggested for furnishing young persons

with a scheme of prayer....................................................................................... 204

CHAP. XIV.

The practical use of female knowledge, with a

sketch of the female character, and a compara-

tive view of the sexes.................................................

CHAP. XV.

CONVERSATION. — Hints suggested on the sub-

ject. On the tempers and dispositions to be

introduced in it. Errors to be avoided.—

Vanity under various shapes the cause of those

errors.....

CHAP. XVI.

On the danger of an ill-directed sensibility......... 283

CHAP. XVII.

On dissipation, and the modern habits of fashion-

able life...........

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... 309

A worldly spirit incompatible with the spirit of

Christianity..........

CHAP. XX.

On the leading doctrines of Christianity. The

corruption of human nature. -The doctrine

of redemption. The necessity of a change of

heart, and of the Divine influences to produce

that change.. With a sketch of the Christian

character.....

387

CHAP. XXI.

On the duty and efficacy of prayer..........

420