Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Tales and Sketches, by the Ettrick Shepherd, Vol. 2: Including the Brownie of Bodsbeck, Winter Evening Tales, Shepherd's Calendar, &C., &C., And Several Pieces Not Before Printed, With Illustrative Engravings, Chiefly From Real Scenes
Every young lady is taught to consider marriage as the great and ultimate end of her life. It is that to which she looks forward for happiness, and in which she hopes to rival or excel her associates and even the first to be married in a family, or court, is amatter of no small consideration. These circumstances plead eloquently in favour of the first lover who makes the dear proposal. The female heart is naturally kind and generous - it feels its own weakness, and its inability to encounter singly the snares and troubles of life; and in short, that it must lean upon another, in order to enjoy the delights most congen ial to its natural feelings, and the emanation of those ten der affections, in the exercise of which the enjoyments of the female mind chie?y consist. It is thus that the hearts of many young women become by degrees irrevo eably fixed on those, whom they were formerly wont to regard with the utmost indifference, if not with contempt merely from a latent principle of generosity existing in the original frame of their nature; a principle which is absolutely necessary towards the proper balancing of our respective rights and pleasures, as well as the regulation of the conduct of either sex to the other.
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