ESSAYS for YOUNG LADIES.
Reading edition
ESSAYS on VARIOUS SUBJECTS, Principally designed for YOUNG LADIES.
As for you, I shall advise you in a few words: aspire only to those virtues that are peculiar to your sex; follow your natural modesty, and think it your greatest commendation not to be talked of one way or the other.
Oration of Pericles to the Athenian Women.
LONDON: Printed for J. Wilkie, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and T. Cadell, in the Strand. MDCCLXXVII.