Excerpt from Narrative of the Last Sickness and Death of Dame Christian Forbes Having fpoken of the men, it would be a crime not to mention the gentler fex. The women of this town are virtuous, fober, frugale, and indufirious never going abroad but to perform the offices of benignity and friendihip never feen at the windows; fiill employing themfelves diligently about the needs of the family. And it is but juf't to fay of them that they deferve to be praifed for much more than the only virtue which Anacreon afcribes to the women of his time, to wit - beauty. They have alfo modefiy, chafiity, purity, . Without which beauty becomes the object of contempt, and not a title of praife; and thus, fince all kind of virtue is a [a mode here among the women, they who in this city are not virtuous, are really out of pofition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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