ON THE

MODERN SYSTEM

OF

FEMALE EDUCATION.

WITH

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 pofterity
in your debt, for the advantage it fhall receive by
your example.
LORD HALIFAX.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED BY BUDD AND BARTRAM,

FOR THOMAS DOBSON, AT THE STONE HOUSE,
NO. 41, SOUTH SECOND STREET.

1800.

The Hope and Expectation of the Time
Should not fo lavish of their presence be,
Nor fo enfeoff'd to Popularity,

That being nightly swallowed by Men's eyes,
They're furfeited with honey, and begin

To loathe the taste of sweetness.

SHAKESPEARE.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND

VOLUM E.

THE

CHAP. XIII.

HE practical use of female knowledge, with a

Sketch of the female character, and a compara-

tive view of the fexes.

CHAP. XIV.

Page 5

CONVERSATION.-Hints fuggested on the fub-

ject.-On the tempers and difpofitions to be

introduced in it.-Errors to be avoided.-Va-

nity under various fhapes the cause of those

On the danger of an ill-directed fenfibility.

34

71

CHAP.

A worldly Spirit incompatible with the Spirit of

Christianity.

CHAP. XIX.

149

On the leading doctrines of Christianity.-The

corruption of human nature.-The doctrine of

redemption. The neceffity of a change of

heart, and of the divine influences to produce

that change. With a sketch of the Christian

character.

175

CHAP. XX.

On the duty and efficacy of prayer.

209