Practical hints to young females, on the duties of a wife, a mother, and a mistress of a family / by Mrs. Taylor of Ongar.

  • Ann Taylor
Date:
1818
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Credit: Practical hints to young females, on the duties of a wife, a mother, and a mistress of a family / by Mrs. Taylor of Ongar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the result not so much of ill-intention, as of inconsideration or mistake. But mistakes, which may involve families in ruin, or ren¬ der them miserable, it becomes of the utmost importance to rectify; especially if we take into the account the influence which they have ultimately on the general weal. One of the most prominent, and fatal in its con¬ sequences, is the propensity to assume, by external appearance, a rank in society to which the finances are inadequate. This, indeed, is a conduct which rarely succeeds; for, till one rank can assume the manners and habits of those above them, it is in vain that they ape their dress and equi¬ page ; they will generally remain stationary in the eyes of all who know them, and even of all who do not; as the servant girl, who, taking the pattern of her mistress’s cap, remains a servant girl still, and ex¬ poses herself to ridicule for her presump¬ tion. As nothing is more common than this destructive ambition, though so little is really gained by it, some of the subsequent pages b 5
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