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XVII. A letter of excuse to a father or mother

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XXXVII. From a father to his fon juft beginning the
world

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XXXIX. To an acquaintance, to borrow a sum of mo-
ney for a little time

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XLIX. To a lady, inviting her into the country for the

fummer

L. To a lady, inviting her to a party of pleasure

LI. To an acquaintance to borrow a fum of money

LII. From a young perfon in trade to a wholesale deal-
er, who had fuddenly made a demand on him

LIII. The wholesale dealer's answer

LIV. From a young perfon juft out of his apprentice-
ship to a relation, requesting him to lend him a fum
of money

LV. To a mother, to thank her for her care and ten-

dernefs

LVI. From a mother to her fon, in answer to the for-

PART II.

Letters of Courtship and Marriage.

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rents to receive his vifits, and think of none elfe for

a hufband

X From a young lady to a gentleman who courts her,
and whom the fufpects of infidelity

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XX A modeft lover defiring an aunt's favour to him for
her niece

XXI The aunt's anfwer, fuppofing the gentleman de-

III.

ferves encouragement

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XXIV A gentleman to a lady, profeffing an averfion to
the tedious formality in courtthip

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XXVIII A facetious young lady to her aunt, ridiculing
her ferious lover

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XXXIV From the fame lady to the fame gentleman, on
his expofing and making public the foregoing
XXXV Lydia to Harriot, a lady newly married
XXXVI Harriot's answer to the above
XXXII To my Lady Sidney, upon the marriage of
my Lady Dorothy to my Lord Spencer
XXXVIII A letter from Lady Wortley Montague, a-
gainst a maxim of Monf. Rochefoucault's,
marriages are convenient, but never delightful.”
XXX X From a lady to a gentleman, who had ob-
tained all her friends' confent, urging him to decline
his fuit to her

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XL The gentleman's answer to the lady's uncommon
request

XLI The lady's reply in case of a prepoffeffion
XLII The lady's reply in case of no prepoffeffion, or
that the chufes not to avow it

PART III.

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Familiar letters of advice and inftruction, &c. in ma ny concerns of life.

I A letter from Judge Hale, Lord Chief Juftice of England, to his children; on the ferious obfervance of the Lord's day, (commonly called Sunday,) when he was on a journey

II Earl of Strafford to his fon, juft before his Lordship's execution

III From a gentleman at Lisbon, immediately after the earthquake, to his fon in London

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IV To Amelia, with a golden thimble
V On the viciffitudes of human life

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VI From a father to his fon, on his admiffion into the univerfity

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VII To Demetrius, with a prefent of fruit, on early rifing 159 VIII To Lucinda on the happiness of a domeftic matrimonial life

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IX To Cleanthes, on friendship, age, and death
X A letter from Bishop Atterbury to his fon Obadiah,
at Chrift-church College in Oxford
XI From a young lady in one of the Canary Islands to
her fifter in England, whom she had never feen; con-
taining a preffing invitation to her to come over, and
defcribing the beauties of the place, in order to pre- -
vair on her

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Elegant letters on various fubjects, to improve the
style and entertain the mind, from eminent authors..

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