INTRODUCTION. THIS Work consists of the following parts: 3. Intellectual Cultivation. 4. Manners and Accomplishments. 5. Teaching and Teachers. 6. Domestic Habits.-Moral and Religious Education. And an Appendix, on Moral and Religious Education. THE object of this Volume is, to awaken the minds of the young to the importance of Education; and to give them just ideas of the nature, design, and practical application, of the various branches of study, pursued in the course of a liberal education. The writer does not flatter herself, that this will be found an attractive book, to those who seek for entertainment, merely. There will be exhibited no creations of the fancy, for the purpose of awakening sympathies, unconnected with the destiny or duty of man. Female writers have too often followed the leadings of imagination, without inquiring, to what end its vagaries would tend. The fondness of the sex, for reading works of fiction, is proverbial. But are not the authors of such works laboring to prepare, for their readers, that kind of food, which, so far from rendering the mental system |