ON FEMALE CHARACTER, ADDRESSED TO A Young Lady, ON THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER. BY MRS. VIRGINIA CARY. Let others fly to pleasure's distant dome; Be mine the dearer task to please at home. HALEY'S Triumphs of Temper. "Thy husband shall have rule over thee." Gen. iii. 16. "The price of a virtuous woman is far above rubies." Prov. xxxi. 10. "Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, SECOND EDITION-ENLARGED. Richmond, Va. PUBLISHED BY ARIEL WORKS. 1830. AVAND COLLEG JUN 14 19:0 Miss Elizabeth E. Dana & Mrs. Henrietta Dana Skinnes, Eastern District of Virginia, to wit BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fourth day of January, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Ariel Works, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Letters on Female Character, addressed to a Young Lady, on the Death of her Mother. By Mrs. Virginia Cary. 'Let others fly to pleasure's distant dome, Haley's Triumphs of Temper. 'Thy husband shall have rule over thee.' Gen. iii. 16. "The price of a virtuous woman is far above rubies.' Prov. xxxi. 10. 'Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.' Prov. xxxi. 30. Second Edition-Enlarged." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned.” RD. JEFFRIES, Clerk of the Eastern District of Virginia. PRESERVATION MASTER AT HARVARD A CARD. THE reader is requested to bear in mind, that the little work here offered for perusal, was undertaken at the particular request of some Christian friends, who proposed "Bennett's Letters," as a general model to the author. In consequence of this limitation in her plan, she has given some sketches of character illustrative of her precepts, after the manner of Dr. B. These are drawn from a general, and not an individual acquaintance with human nature; and many of the most striking warnings are derived from the author's own experience of the evils inherent in her own nature. In no single instance has she drawn a real likeness in all its parts, from any living example, though she has sketched traits of character which are common to many persons of her acquaintance. She gives this little explanation in consequence of her having been told by censorious people, that her characters bore so strong a resemblance to persons of their acquaintance, that they were convinced she meant to hold them up to public contempt. None could have cast this imputation but those utterly unacquainted with the author's real character, or her true motives in writing this work; and she is convinced, that those capable of appreciating motives of Christian duty, and a desire for Christian usefulness, will acquit her of so odious a charge. |