Instructions For A Young Lady In Every Sphere And Period Of Life

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483781184
Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Instructions for a Young Lady, in Every Sphere and Period of Life written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Instructions for a Young Lady, in Every Sphere and Period of Life: Containing, I. A Mother's Advice to Her Daughters; II. Two Letters to a Lady Upon the Subject of Religion, by a Clergyman; III. A Letter to a Young Lady on Her Marriage; IV. An Epistle Upon the Cultivation of Taste; V. Fables for the Female-Sex No doubt has done his belt, and is rather thethe object of pity, than contempt, for having been placed in a fituation of life which his talents were not equal to, and may perhaps be a good man, though no great orator. I would alfo recommend to you the early and frequent participa tion of the communion, (or, what is commonly called receiving the facra ment), as the indifpenfable duty of eve ry chrifiian. There is no inf'titu1ion of our religion, more fimple, plain, and intelligible than this is, as delivered to us by our Saviour; and molt of the ela borate treatifes wrote, fince his time, on the fubjecl, have ferved only to puzzle and dilturb weak minds, by throwing the dark veil of fuperi'tition and human invention over a plain pofitive command, given by him 111 fo explicit a manner as to be eafily comprehended by the mean eft capacity, and which it 13 doubtlefs in the power of all his {incere followers to pay an acceptable obedience to. No thing has more contributed to the ne gleet of this duty than the numerous well meaning books that have been wrote to injoin a month's, or a week's preparation, as previoufly necefiary to the due per formance ofit; by this means, filling the minds of many with needlefs terror, put. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.