Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science. Vol. 1 / [John Coakley Lettsom].

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1797
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    Thefe reflexions are not the refult of mere {peculation, but are deduced from examples in real life, where I have taken fome pains to tear away the obloquy which has been thrown over fome young women of my acquaintance, and to reftore the diamond of female innocence to its genuine luftre and value ; but, as this effay is al- ready extended to a confiderable length, I fhall conclude it in the words of an emi- nent Writer, addrelfed to young women. “ Nothing can be more certain, than that your fex is, on every account, intitled to the fhelter of ours; your foftnefs, weak- nefs, timidity, and tender reliance on man; your helplefs condition in yourfelves, and his fuperior ftrength for labour, ability for defence, and fortitude in trial ; your tacit acknowledgment of thefe, and frequent ap- . plication for his aid, in fo many winning ways, concur to form a plea, which nothing can difallow or withfland, but brutality.” SECTION