Domeftic Happiness, thou only blifs

Of Paradife that has furviv'd the Fall!
Thou art not known where PLEASURE is ador'd,
That reeling Goddess with the zoneless waift.
Forfaking thee, what fhipwreck have we made
Of honour, dignity, and fair renown!

COWPER.

A VIEW OF THE PRINCIPLES AND CONDUCT PREVALENT
AMONG WOMEN OF RANK AND FORTUNE.

By HANNAH MORE.

May you so raise your character that you may help to
make the next age a better thing, and leave posterity
in your debt, for the advantage it shall receive by your
example.
LORD HALIFAX,

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

THE SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL JUN. AND W. DAVIES

IN THE STRAND.

-classed 11-1-32 AVM

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Addrefs to women of rank and fortune, on

the effects of their influence on fociety.-

Suggestions for the exertion of it in various

inftances.

CHAP. II.

On the education of women.The prevailing

fyftem tends to establish the errors which

it ought to correct.-Dangers arifing from

an exceffive cultivation of the arts.

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VOL. I.

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CHAP.

CHAP. III.

External improvement.-Children's Balls.-

French Governeffes.

CHAP. IV.

Page 89

Comparison of the mode of female education in

the last age with the prefent.

CHAP. V.

105

On the religious employment of time.

On the manner in which holidays are

paffed. Selfishness and inconfideration

confidered.-Dangers arising from the

world.

119

CHAP. VI.

Filial obedience not the character of the age.

-A comparifon with the preceding age

in this refpect.-Thofe who cultivate the

mind advised to study the nature of the