HISTORICAL BEAUTIES FOR YOUNG LADIES, INTENDED TO LEAD THE FEMALE MIND To the Love and Practice of MORAL GOODNESS. DESIGNED PRINCIPALLY FOR THE USE OF LADIES' SCHOOLS. BY MRS. PILKINGTON. THE THIRD EDITION. Ornamented with thirty Engravings, beautifully When such a specious Mirror's set before ye, FOR VERNOR AND HOOD, IN THE POULTRY; ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 1804. OF FEMALE SEMINARIES. LADIES, THE Historical Beauties has a natural claim on some share of your patronage: It aims at the same objects with you, co-operates with all your labours in improving and polishing our sex, is the associate of your wishes, and facilitates their completion. What approbation it deserves, were as unnecessary for me to solicit, as unhandsome in you to refuse. I have done what I could, and you will judge as you ought. From that imperfection which tarnishes every human production, mine pleads no exemption; but has the less to fear, that my readers are more or less conscious of similar infirmity; and experience may have taught them the equity and necessity of shewing the same measure of lenity in my case they may wish in their own. To you it comes, with perfect confidence in your favourable or candid acceptance at least. It makes an humble tender of assistance, a 2 |