MRS. PALMERSTONE'S LETTERS то HER DAUGHTER. Letter VII. THE CARD PARTY, WITH THE HISTORY OF THE STANLEY FAMILY. MY DEAR CHILD, I AM not one of those who regard a paffive obedience and blind fubmiffion on the part of the child as the best fecurity for reasonable hopes on that of the parent: much less do I think them the suitable means of providing for those trials in this life, on which depends her happiness in a more perfect ftate of existence. You are called upon as a rational being, and as created ultimately for immortality, VOL. II. B to |