The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge.

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[1824]
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Credit: The new female instructor; or, Young woman's guide to domestic happiness : being an epitome of all the acquirements necessary to form the female character, in every class of life: with examples of illustrious women. To which are added, advice to servants; a complete art of cookery, and plain directions for carving: also, a great variety of medicinal and other useful receipts in domestic economy; and numerous interesting articles, forming a complete storehouse of valuable knowledge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bn the sober mind, which is deeply wounded when it hears the holy name it loves dishonoured; and it is as contrary to good- breeding to give pain, as it is to true piety to be profane. It is astonishing that the refined and elegant should not reprobate this practice for its coarseness and vulgarity, as much as the pious abhor it for its sinfulness, I would endeavour to give some faint idea of the grossness of this offence, by an analogy (oh! how inadequate!) with which the feeling heart, even though not seasoned with reli- gion, may yet be touched. To such I w'ould say: Suppose you had some beloved friend—to put the. case still more strongly, a departed friend—a revered parent, perhaps, whose image never occurs without awaking in your bosom sentiments of tender love, and lively gratitude; how would you feel if you heard this honoured name bandied about with unfeeling familiarity, and indecent levity; or, at best, thrust into every pause of speech as a vulgar expletive ? Does not your affec- tionate heart recoil at the thought!' And yet the hallowed name of your truest Benefactor, your heavenly Father, your best Friend, to whom you are indebted for all that you enjoy; who gives you those very friends in whom you so much delight, those very talents with which you dishonour him, those very organs of speech with which you blaspheme him; is treated with an irreverence, a contempt, a wantonness, w'ith w'hich you cannot bear the very thought or mention of treating a human friend. His name is impiously, is unfeelingly, is ungratefully, singled out as the object of decided irreverence, of systematic contempt, of thoughtless levity. His sacred name is used in- discriminately to express anger, joy, grief, surprise, impatience, and, what is still more unpardonable than all, it is wantonly used as a mere unmeaning expletive, which, being excited by no temptation, can have nothing to extenuate it; w hich causino' no emotion, can have nothing to recommend it, unless it be the pleasure of sin. Among the deep, but less obvious mischiefs of conversation, misrepresadation must not be overlooked. Self-love is contmu- ally at work to give to all w'e say a bias in our own favour. 1 he counteraction of this fault should be set about m the earliest stages of education. If young persons have not been discou- raged in the natural but evil propensity, to relate eveiy dispute they have had w'ith others to their own advantage; if they have not been trained up to the bounden duty of doing justice even to those with whom they are at variance; it they have not been led to aim at a complete impartiality m their little narratives, and instructed never to take advantage ol the ab- sence of the other party, in order to make the story lean to