The Ladies Calling

Author : Richard Allestree
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230301006
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Ladies Calling, by the Author of the Whole Duty of Man. [Another] written by Richard Allestree and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1677 edition. Excerpt: ... THE LADIES CALLING PART. I. SECT. I. Of Modefy. i i. ""WT is now many years since an Address was made to the Gentry of this Nation, fl to perswade them to that Vertue which-ml. would be both their Pleasure and Reward. I cannot, I confess, boast any such Effect of that, as should much inspirit the hopes of a new Attemt; yet since we fee in our proper secular Concerns, Defeats do many times animate no less then Success, I know not why in this more charitable Design I should sit down discouraged. Men usually raise not A a Siege a Siege upon the first repulse, but reinforce their Batteries, observe-more curiously which are the most assailable, accessible parts, and accordingly dispose their Assault: it will then be no unreasonable imitation in the present case, if after a succefless Attemt upon the more impregnable Masculine part of the Gentry, I now assay the Feminine, whose native Softness and Gentleness may render them less apt for that resistance of good Counsel, wherein too many men place their Gallantry. x. I presume those to whom that little Tract was at first design'd, will be so willing to relinquish their Title, that I might without imputation of Robbery, exchange my Patrons, and by a new Dedication supersede the labor of a new Book. And indeed, since what was there said was founded more on the distinction of Qualities then of Sex, there would not need many razures to render it as proper for the one as the other; and I shall take so much advantage os it, as to assure the Female Gentry, that they may there finde much of the Duty incumbent on them, in respect of that Rank and Condition they hold in the World: and therefor, tho I shall somtimes make some reflexions on ft; yet as to the main, I shall think it the eifrefTt course as...