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Title:  A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids. By a friend to the sisterhood. In three volumes.: [pt.1]
Author: Hayley, William, 1745-1820.
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quality; she is a being, to use the for|cible and elegant expression of a poet, Fine by defect, and amiably weak.There is, perhaps, no charm, by which she more effectually secures the tender ad|miration and the lasting love of the more hardy sex, than her superior endurance, her mild and graceful submission to the com|mon evils of life. Nor is this the sole ad|vantage she derives from her gentle forti|tude; it is the prerogative of this lovely virtue to lighten the pressure of all those incorrigible evils, which it chearfully en|dures. The frame of man may be com|pared to the sturdy oak, which is often shattered by resisting the tempest; woman is the pliant osier, which, in bending to the storm, eludes its violence.The accurate observers of human nature will readily allow, that patience is most eminently the characteristic of woman. To what a sublime and astonishing height this virtue has been carried by beings of 0