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BODLEIAN

24 3 1910

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MRS. ELIZABETH GRAY,

MADAM,

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E requeft the liberty of introducing to the public, under the

fanction of your name, the fol

lowing collection of little effays, to which, in their scattered ftate, you were pleased to give some very flattering marks of your approbation

approbation.

The defign was new among

us, the purpofe good, and your ufual candor made every due allowance for the hafte in which they were neceffarily written. The principal object of their intention was the female world. We wished to amufe them with innocence; to rally with that refpectful delicacy to which they ever are intitled, and fometimes perhaps to fteal in a fentiment which might fet the heart right without the infolence of precept. Our first and great defire indeed was to fee the whole fex as like as poffible to a certain amiable origina', which every perfon, who has the honour of your intimacy, must admire. If our sketches have any merit, it must be imputed to the excellence of this model A fine understanding, graced by the moft polished, manners;

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a genuine elegance of fentiment and taste, correfponding with the most pleasing form,

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