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PREFACE.
IN the following pages I have endeavoured to point out ſome important things with reſpect to female education. It is true, many treatiſes have been already written; yet it occurred to me, that much ſtill remained to be ſaid. I ſhall not ſwell theſe ſheets by writing apologies for my attempt. I am afraid, indeed, the reflections will, by ſome, be thought too grave; but I could not make them leſs ſo without writing af-
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