A MORAL TALE,

INCLUDING

LETTERS

FROM

A FATHER TO HIS DAUGHTER,

UPON THE

MOST IMPORTANT SUBJECTS.

By the Rev. HENRY KETT,

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD,
AND AUTHOR OF THE ELEMENTS OF GENERAL_
KNOWLEDGE, &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES,

VOL. II.

THE SECOND EDITION,

LONDON:

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NO. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD;

PAYNE, PALL-MALL; LUNN, SOHO SQUARE;
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-3 MAY 1973

LIBRARY

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EMILY.

LETTER XII.

COLONEL LORTON TO HIS DAUGHTER.

ON SCANDAL.

FROM the moft careful obfervations I have been able to make, I am inclined to think that the propensity to tell a story to the dif advantage of another perfon, or what is generally called Scandal, is as common to men as it is to women, and therefore your fex are unjustly accufed of being more prone to

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