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ing of things they have not capacity ever to underſtand; few things are learnt thoroughly, but many follies contracted, and an immoderate fondneſs for dreſs among the reſt.
To prepare a woman to fulfil the important duties of a wife and mother, are certainly the objects that ſhould be in view during the early period of life; yet accompliſhments are moſt thought of, and they, and all-powerful beauty, generally gain the heart; and as the keeping of it is not conſidered of until it is loſt, they are deemed of the moſt conſequence. A ſenſible governeſs cannot attend to the
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