FOR YOUNG LADIES. IN THREE PARTS. DEVOTIONAL, MORAL, AND ENTERTAINING. SELECTED BY DR GOLDSMITH. PERTH: PRINTED BY R. MORISON, JUNIOR, FOR R. MORISON AND SON, BOOKSELLERS, PERTH; N. M,DCCXCII. PREFACE. DOCTOR FORDYCE's excellent Sermons for Young Women in fome meafure gave rife to the following compilation. In that Work, where he fo judiciously points out all the defects of female conduct to remedy them, and all the proper studies which they fhould purfue, with a view to improvement, Poetry is one to which he particu larly would attach them. He only objects to the danger of pursuing this charming study through all the immoralities and falfe pictures of happinefs with which it abounds, and thus becoming the martyr of innocent curiofity. In the following compilation care has been ta ken to felect, not only fuch pieces as innocence may read without a blufb, but fuch as will even tend to ftrengthen that innocence. In this little work a Lady may find the most exquifite pleasure, while fhe is at the fame time learning the duties of life; and, while fhe courts only entertainment, be deseived into wisdom. Indeed, this would be too great |