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Dedication.

in the Mouth of a tender Wife? Who would not deſpiſe the empty Charms of Luxury, on beholding your ſimple and modeſt Attire, which, on account of the Luſtre it derives from you, appears the moſt favourable to Beauty? It is your Buſineſs to perpetuate, by your amiable and innocent Empire and your inſinuating Converſation, Harmony among Citizens, with a due Love and Reſpect for the Laws of their Country; to reunite divided Families by happy Marriages; and, above all things, to correct by the perſuaſive Mildneſs of your Leſſons, and the modeſt Graces of your Diſcourſe, thoſe miſtaken Notions of Things, which our young People

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