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PG-P.751.046
29 Aug 1751:22 (1185)
Extract from the Universal Spectator. . . [27 lines,
discussion of education of women.]
As the advice here given is plainly intended for those of
easy fortunes, they will find time enough to spare for
needle-work, dancing, music, painting, company, and every
other proper accomplishment or amusement: And a young lady
thus brought up, will, I dare be confident, not only become
much wiser and better . . . [21 lines]
Let every women, therefore, think she hears the
sentiments of all mankind express'd in those fine lines of
Mr. Addison.
'Tis not a sett of features or complexion,
The tincture of a skin that I admire;
Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Cato
To which, asking pardon for the presumption, I beg leave to
add,
But the divine perfections of the soul,
Good nature, wisdom, virtue, bright and pure,
For ever bloom, unconscious of decay,
Charm without cloying, in possession new.
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