THE WORKS

OF

HANNAH MORE

VOL. III.

CONTAINING

STRICTURES ON THE MODERN SYSTEM OF

FEMALE EDUCATION.

LONDON:

HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

1853

CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

Introduction.

Chapter I.-Address to women of rank and fortune, on

the effects of their influence on society-Suggestions for

the exertion of it in various instances.

Chapter II.-On the education of women-The prevail-

ing system tends to establish the errors which it ought

to correct-Dangers arising from an excessive cultiva-

tion of the arts.

Chapter III.-External improvement-Children's balls-

French governesses.

Chapter IV. Comparison of the mode of female educa-

tion in the last age with the present.

Chapter V.-On the religious employment of time-On

the manner in which holidays are passed-Selfishness

and inconsideration considered-Dangers arising from

the world.

Chapter VI.-On the early forming of habits-On the

necessity of forming the judgment to direct those habits.

Chapter VII.-Filial obedience not the character of the

age A comparison with the preceding age in this re-

spect-Those who cultivate the mind odvised to study

the nature of the soil-Unpromising children often

make strong characters-Teachers too apt to devote

their pains almost exclusively to children of parts. . . 100

Chapter VIII.-On female study, and initiation into

knowledge-Error of cultivating the imagination to

the neglect of the judgment-Books of reasoning re-

commended.

Chapter IX. —On the religious and moral use of history

and geography.

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