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 posterity in your debt, for the advantage
it shall receive by your example.
LORD HALIFAX.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

Salem, (Mass.)

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL WEST.

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Idus 8308.09

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1855146

Samuel T. Armstrong, printer, Charlestown.

end

Address to women of rank and fortune, on the effects of

their influence on society. Suggestions for the exer-

tion of it in various instances.

CHAP. II.

On the education of women. The prevailing system tends

to establish the errors which it ought to correct. Dan-

gers arising from an excessive cultivation of the arts

CHAP. III.

External improvement. Children's balls. French govern-

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esses

CHAP. IV.

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Comparison of the mode of female education in the last age

with the present

CHAP. V.

On the religious employment of time. On the manner in

which holidays are passed. Selfishness and inconsid-

eration considered. Dangers arising from the world

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