Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.

FENELON'S TREATISE

ON THE

Education of Daughters:

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH,

AND

ADAPTED TO ENGLISH READERS,
With an Original Chapter,

"On Religious Studies.”

BY THE REV. T. F. DIBDIN, B. A. F. A. S.
Author of

"An Introduction to the Knowledge of the best Editions
of the Greek and Latin Classics," &c.

"Chaste and modest writings never alter the hon-
our of any gentlewoman. For as the remembrance
of infamous persons is much detested and hated by
the Muses-so is the glory and renown of the virtuous
installed by them in eternal memory for ever."

PASTORALS OF JULIETTA. Fol. Edit. 1610.
Pt. 3, p. 88.

Soin this pilgrimage I would behold
You, as you are-VIRTUE'S TEMPLE !

DONNE'S POEMS. Edit. 1650. p. 156.
[To the Countess of Bedford.]

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CHAPTER IX.

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