OR A PRACTICAL PLAN FOR THE STUDIES OF YOUNG LADIES. WITH AN ADDRESS ΤΟ PARENTS, PRIVATE GOVERNESSES, AND YOUNG LADIES. BY ELIZABETH APPLETON. It is, methinks, a very melancholy consideration, that a little negligence LONDON: PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN, CONDUIT STREET, HANOVER 1815. SQUARE. Harvard College Library Nov. 22, 1921 Sohier fund Printed by Cox and Baylis, 22- TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS OF LEVEN AND MELVILLE. MADAM, I had made some progress in the following work, when I had the honour to be appointed preceptress to your daugh ters. Upon an impartial examination of these young Ladies, I discovered in them a steadiness of principle, and a nobleness of acquirement A 2 iv quirement surprising in persons of their tender years, and as uncommon by the too prevailing mode of education. With pleasure, with pride, I made the remark; and felt only anxious to trace back this exquisite singularity to its grand cause. The task was easy. I found it to have an origin in the fulfilment of every maternal duty. From their infancy you, Madam, had been a real mother, a friend, a companion. With every soft embrace you instilled a lesson of piety, of virtue, of honour. With every recreation of infancy you wove a principle of goodness, or of morality.Thus in a few precious years, having secured the useful of education, you allowed your children to seek for elegance; and elegance was added, under the most lovely of |