The lady's pocket library. Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Rudiments of taste, by the Countess of Carlisle. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables. For the female Sex.

Date:: 1797

Credit: The lady's pocket library. Containing, 1. Miss More's Essays. 2. Dr. Gregory's Legacy to his daughters. 3. Lady Pennington's Unfortunate mother's advice to her daughters. 4. Rudiments of taste, by the Countess of Carlisle. 5. Mrs. Chapone's Letter on the government of the temper. 6. Swift's Letter to a young lady newly married. 7. Moore's Fables. For the female Sex. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Jt LMEN TSior/T AST E. 21 9 meadyafl rmative puts the queftion ont of all doubt. « d hhave been always of opinion, that religion owes the, abutes that. have been. put on her, more to the weakuei{s than the knavery.of mankind perhaps it would. be’no hard -tafk to prove, that all the abfurd dostrines, which at this’ day difgrace her in. certain fects, originated with perfons, the warmth of whofe imagination,..exceeded the {treneth of their under- fianding 3. but»waving whatever tends to coatroverfy, I fthallonly hint, that the practice of piety has.receiy- ed confiderable injury by devotees. of the above-men- tioned clafs.. Forgetful.of what was juft. now advanc- ed, that religion is not a paffion, but a principle, thefe- ‘people have made it all confift in incoherent rhapfo- dies, and fenfelefs jargon of devout impulfes—holy coniolations; and fuch like, which I believe they are More indebted for to particular tempers and conttitu- ‘tion, than any revelation of divine favor. Perfons of folid fenfe, have with reafon been difgufted at this af fected piety—but the world loves to run into extremes, | gad therefore it happens, that becaufe the cant of hy- pocrify or {uperftition has been judged injurious to the dignity of religion—modern manners difclaim any ac- waintancewithheratall oun * But be affured, my dear girls, that nothing fo high- dy elevates and adornsthe human character, asa fteas dy rational piety—noris any thing capable of yielding do pure and exalted a happinefs to the foul, as an habit ‘devotion. No one who has experienced the viciffi- _ ude of fublunary things, but muft highly value the privilege of pofleiling a friend, that would at all times he acceptable—ready to hear the complaints of afflic- tion, and.all powerful to relieve them. 4 : & ‘Such a friend you may enjoy in the Divine Being 5 of what confequence is it then that you acquire a tafte for -t] e exercifes of devotion 3. that you cultivate a viend{hip with Heaven, andaccuftom your hearts to rith God. . This is an emphatical expreffion of D vid, and gives yon an idea of rational and fincere Brayer—which confiits not in formal addreffes, but is ting ra$

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