Essays

Excerpt from Essays
If in the multitude of counsellors there is safety, how blest must be the security of single women! Every one who has a little spare wisdom at command, seems just now inclined to lay it out for their benefit. As far as books go, they have become the objects of class legislation, having a literature of their own, so abounding in hints, suggestions, and schemes for their favourable consideration, that we sometimes wonder if any among the sisterhood feel at all inclined to echo Tony Lumpkins' ungracious and unfilial rejoinder, 11 wish you would only leave my good alone.'
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