THE LADIES LIBRARY. VOLUME THE SECON D. WRITTEN BY A LADY. PUBLISHED BY Sir RICHARD STEELE. THE EIGHTH EDITION STOR LIBRA LONDO NEW-YORK Printed by W. STRAHAN, J. and F. RIVINGTON, MDCCLXXII, ries; You cannot therefore expect for ever to be doing laudable things, and for ever to escape applause. It is in vain, you find, that you have always concealed greater excellencies, than others induftriously present to view; for the world will know that your beauty, though in the higheft degree of dignity and fweetness, is but a faint image of the fpirit which inhabits the amiable form which heaven has bestowed on you. It is obferved by all who know you, that though you have an afpect and mien, which draw the attention and expectas tion of all who converfe with You, You, and a wit and good fenfe which furmount the great conceptions Your perfon raises in Your beholders, thofe perfections are enjoyed by you, like gifts of common acceptation; that lovely and affable air expreffes only the humility of a great and generous heart; and the moft fhining accomplishments, used by others to attract vulgar admiration, are ferviceable to You only, as they adorn piety and charity. Though Your perfon and fortune equally raise the admiration. and ambition of our whole fex, to move your attention to their |