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think that learning in our ſex is always united with ſtiff pedantry. They are ignorant and vain who make a boaſt of their qualifications; and it is thoſe who pretend to the moſt that are generally the leaſt endued with underſtanding: Never, my dear Harriot, affect ſuperiority of knowledge; let your ſtile be always plain and familiar, but exempt from vulgariſms; never make uſe of a word you do not perfectly underſtand: I have often bluſhed for many a young lady, nay, many of the other ſex too, who had introduced expreſſions quite foreign to their intended meaning: this downright ignorance proceeds from downright arrogance: I dare ſay, my dear Harriot, knowing what an enemy I am to repetitions, will now turn critic and find faults with my downrights. But, take notice, that when a repetition enforces an affection, it is then, inſtead of being a fault, deemed a beauty; there are many tautologies in our poets, which, in a great meaſure, add to their force and energy. I am proud to find my dear Harriot ſo correct in her ſpelling; there is nothing dignifies a female letter, more than this attention; a young lady ſhould always have her dictionary near her, and never commit a word to paper that ſhe entertains the leaſt doubt of. It has been remarked by ſome conceited, empty fools, that good ſpelling is not to be expected from the pens of young ladies; and why not? Do you not, my dear child, feel this decla-
