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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$ne 26 On CONVERSATION. though fhe may be allowed a triumphs and it fhould _ humble her to refle&t, that the tribute is paid, not to her ftrength, but to her weaknefs. ~Itis worth while. to difcriminate between that applaufe, which is given from the complaifance of others, and that which is p2id to our own merit. ee: Where great {prightlinefs is the natural bent of the temper, girls fhould endeavour to habituate themfelves to a cuftom of obferving, thinking, and reafoning. IL do not mean that they fhould devote themfelvesto ab~ ftrufe ff eculation, or the ftudy of logic; but fhe, who is. Brey Soe to give a aduea aoe toher thoughts, toreafon juftly and pertinently, on common affairs, and wor judicioully to deduce efiects fro eir caufes, will be a better logician than fome of fl ho claim the name, becaufe they have fiudied the art :t] being ‘‘learn- ed without the rules ;”’ the beft definition, perhaps, of that fort of literature which is propereft for the fex. That fpecies oriole which appears to be the refult of reflection rather than of{cience,its peculiarly wellon women. It isnot uncommon to find a lady, who, though fhe does not know afule of fyntax, {carce- ly everviolates one ; and who fonftrucis every fentence the utters, with more propriety than many a learned dunce, who has every rule of Ariftotle by heart, and who can lace his own thread bare difcourfe with the golden fhreds of Cicero and Virgil. It has been objected, and I fear with fome reafon, that female converfation is too frequently tinctured with a cenforious fpirit, and that ladies are feldom apt to difcover much tendernefs for the errors of a fallen fifter, ii it be fo, it isa eri vous fault. No argument can juftify, no pleas can extenuate it. To exult over the miferies of anunhappy creature, is inhuman: not to compaffionate them, is unchriftian. The worthy part of the fex always expre{s themfelves humanely on the failings of others, in proportion to their own undeviating goodnefs. mad here Icannot help Renae) that young wo-$

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