The Adventures of a Pincushion

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Excerpt from The Adventures of a Pincushion: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Young Ladies Vi P R E F A C E. A ridiculous View, is not the proper method to engage the youthful mind torefpeéi, to reprefent their equals as the objects of contemptuous mirth, is by no means favourable to the in. Tercil of good-nature: and to treat the characters of their inferiors with levity, ' the Author thought was inconfif'tent with: the facred rights of humanity. Circumfcribed therefore to the narrow boundaries of fimple narrative, it has been the defign of the following'pages, carefully to avoid exciting any Wrong impre¿ion, and, by fometimes blend ing iiz¿rufiz'on and amufemc'm', to make, it the more eafily retained. To multiply incidents in 'thefe cirr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.