Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,

To teach the Young idea how to shoot.

Friendly Inftructor;

OR, A

COMPANION

FOR

YOUNG LADIES,

AND

YOUNG GENTLEMEN:

IN WHICH

Their Duty to GOD and their PARENTS,
their Carriage to Superiors and Inferiors,
and feveral other very ufeful and instructive
Leffons are recommended,

In plain and familiar

DIALOGUE S.

With a Recommendatory PREFACE, by
P. DODDRIDGE, D. D.
VOL I.

The SIXTH EDITION. Adorned with CUTS.

LONDON:

Printed for J. BUCKLAND in Pater nofter-row. 1770.
[Price Eight-pence.]

EIA

The Recommendatory

PREFACE.

I

Have perused these Dialogues with fo much pleasure, that had the author of them been intirely unknown, I fhould have wifhed they might have been made publick. But I must defire it with the greater earneftness, as they were written by a Lady, with whofe valuable character I have been acquainted many years, and who has been long employed in the education of children, with great wifdom, piety, and tenderness, fo as to have been inftrumental, by the divine bleffing, in forming feveral to a temper and conduct in many amiable inftances refembling her own.