Copies of original letters recently written by persons in Paris to Dr. Priestley in America : taken on board of a neutral vessel.

  • Stone, John Hurford, 1763-1818.
Date:
1798
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Credit: Copies of original letters recently written by persons in Paris to Dr. Priestley in America : taken on board of a neutral vessel. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JUST PUBLISHED. AND TO PF. S ( I. D BY JAMES HUMPHREYS, At No. 59, louth Third-ftee., oppofite the United States Bank, [Price One Dollar neatly bbund and lettered] An Enquiry into the DUTIES of the Female Sex. By THUMAS GISBORNE, M. A. The following am«ng others are the principal Subjects of this ufeful Work. Female Education. Of the mode of introducing Young Women into general Society. Female umvarfation and Epiftolary Correfpondencc. Dreft. Amusements. Exctfs in the Purfuits of Amuftmatts. Employment of time. Confederations antecedent to Mama e. Duties of Matrimonial Life, with a vino to different Situations and Circumftanres. Parental Duties. Duties of the middle Period of Life. Duties of the Decline of Life. ^ From the Title of the foregoing Wrk it may perhaps be imagined, that the Enquiry is altogether and exclnfively direfled to the Duties of the Female Sex: It therefore, may not he unneceffary, or unujeful, to remark, that many of the Chapters contain Matter relative to the ConduEi of both Sexes, and particularly thofc tvlicb relate to the—Duties of matrimonial Lif—Parental Duiic—.Duties of the Middle Period—and of the Decline »f Life. And the Reader of cither Sex, that perujes tbit Work with a View of gaining Information leading to fubftantMl Pleafure, will affur- edly not he difapp'/mted. In Fail, it is a Work interefling to the Happincfs of Soci- ety, and mull be ufeful wherever read; tending not only to point out in eafy and en- gaging Lan^ua^e. tie Pctbs that Lad the youthful Mind to Happincfs and Comfort, but thofe alfo, in the Walk of which, the Parent and she Middle Period of Life fh all find fine ere Delight, and declining Tears render thcmfel-ves comfortable and happy luitb all around tbem. The following; BOOKS with many others may be bad of faid HUMPHREYS. Th- BOTANIC GARDEN, a Poem, in two Parts. Part I. containing the Economy of Vegetation Part II. the Loves of the PI nts. With Philofo- phic.il Notes. By Erafmus Darwin. M. D. F. R. S. ZOONOM1A ; or the Laws of Organic Life. By Erafmus Darwin, M. D. F. R. S. DISSERTATIONS on the PROPHECIES which have been remarkably fulfil- led; and a: this time are fulfill ng in the world. By Thomas Newton, D. D. late Bifliop of Briftol. NATURAL PRINCIPLES of RECTITUDE for the Condua of Man in all States and Situations c-f Life. By Johan. D. Grofs. D. D. and Minifter of the German rcf rmed Church in the City of New-York, and Profcflor of Mo- ral Philofophy, Geography and Chronology in Columbia College. ESSAYS on the following interefting fubjefts. Government. Revolutions. The Britilh ContVitution. Kingly Government. Parliamcn'ary Reprefentation and Reform. Liberty and Equality- Taxation. The nrefent Wax and the Stagnation of Credit as connected with it. By John Young, Minifter of the Gofpel, at Hawick, in Scotland. ANDRE; A Tragedy in five afts : as prformed by the Old American Company, New-York, March 30, 1708. To which are added Authentic Documents, refpefting Major Andre; confiftinp of Letters to Mifs Seward, the Cow Chace, Proceedings of the court martial, &c. The SECRET TRIBUNAL; A new Play, juft publifhed. By Mr. Boadcn, Author or Fontainville Foreft. QUASHY, or the Coal-F/.ack-Maid; a Poem juft publifhed. BIBLES, Teftaments, Dictionaries, Fables, Affiftants, Spelling Books, &c. &c. At fane Place may be bad a Variety of common and -very bejl Pocket and Pen Knives: Alfo Genuine Patent Medicines. /