Note 8 — MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS on GENIUS, TASTE, GOOD SENSE, &c. [8]
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The Author begs leave to offer an apology for introducing this Essay, which, she fears, may be thought foreign to her purpose. But she hopes that her earnest desire of exciting a taste for literature in young ladies, (which encouraged her to hazard the following remarks) will not obstruct her general design, even if it does not actually promote it.