The ladies friend  being a treatise on the virtues and qualifications which are the brightest ornaments of the fair sex, and render them most agreeable to the sensible part of mankind.

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Cotton, Nathaniel, 1705-1788. Fireside.

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The ladies friend being a treatise on the virtues and qualifications which are the brightest ornaments of the fair sex, and render them most agreeable to the sensible part of mankind.