TO A YOUNG LADY; IN WHICH THE DUTIES AND CHARACTER OF WOMEN CHIEFLY WITH A REFERENCE TO PREVAILING OPINIONS, BY MRS. WEST, AUTHOR OF "LETTERS TO A YOUNG MAN," &c. Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. III. THIRD EDITION. Prov. xxxi. 30. LONDON: FRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW. LETTER S, &c. &c. &c. LETTER XI. On Conversation, Society, and Friendship. MY DEAR MISS M Two advantages are annexed to literary pursuits; first, as they tend to improve those wonderful faculties by which we are distinguished from the brute creation, to our own comfort; and, secondly, as knowledge is calculated to make us more agreeable and pleasing in the eyes of our fellow-creatures. |