Front matter

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The Power of Sympathy.

VOL. I.

The impression of this Edition consists of 550 Copies, of which this is No. 313.

Edited by Walter Littlefield.

THE POWER OF SYMPATHY: or, the Triumph of Nature. Founded in Truth.

BY

MRS. PEREZ MORTON

(SARAH WENTWORTH APTHORP).

With Frontispiece.

BOSTON: PRINTED·by·CUPPLES

& PATTERSON·and·PUBLISHED

BY·THEM·at·THE·BACK

BAY·BOOKSTORE·250·BOYLSTON·STREET

Copyright, 1894,

By Walter Littlefield.

All Rights Reserved.

THE

POWER OF SYMPATHY:

OR, THE

TRIUMPH OF NATURE.

FOUNDED IN TRUTH.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

Fain would he strew Life’s thorny Way with Flowers,

And open to your View Elysian Bowers;

Catch the warm Passions of the tender Youth,

And win the Mind to Sentiment and Truth.

PRINTED at BOSTON

by ISAIAH THOMAS and Company.

Sold at their Bookstore, No. 45, Newbury Street,

And at said Thomas’s Bookstore in Worcester.

MDCCLXXXIX.

TO THE

YOUNG LADIES,

OF

United Columbia,

These VOLUMES,

Intended to represent the specious Causes,

AND TO

Expose the fatal Consequences

OF

SEDUCTION;

To inspire the Female Mind

With a principle of Self Complacency

AND TO

Promote the Economy of Human Life,

Are Inscribed,

With Esteem and Sincerity,

By their

Friend and Humble Servant,

The Author.

Boston, Jan. 1789.

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