Printed by WILLIAM FLYN, at the Shakespear,
near the Exchange.

M,DCC,LXXI.

BODLEIAN

24 3 1910

PARY

MRS. ELIZABETH GRAY,

MADAM,

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E requeft the liberty of introducing to the public, under the fanction of your name, the following collection of little effays, to which, in their scattered ftate, you were pleased to give fome very flattering marks of your

approbation

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approbation. The defign was new among us, the purpose good, and your usual 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 amuse 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 defire indeed great 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, muft. admire. If our sketches have any merit, it must be imputed to the excellence of, this model A fine underftanding, graced by the most polished, manners;

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a genuine elegance of fentiment and tafte, correfponding with the moft pleafing form,

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