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Title:  The female review: or, Memoirs of an American young lady; whose life and character are peculiarly distinguished--being a Continental soldier, for nearly three years, in the late American war. During which time, she performed the duties of every department, into which she was called, with punctual exactness, fidelity and honor, and preserved her chastity inviolate, by the most artful concealment of her sex. : With an appendix, containing charcteristic traits, by different hands; her taste for economy, principles of domestic education, &c. / By a citizen of Massachusetts.
Author: Mann, Herman, 1771-1833.
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KNOWING she had his commendations, she found new stimulations for perseve|rance. And scarcely any injunctions would have been too severe for her com|pliance. Hence it seems, he was led to conceive that such an assemblage of cour|age and refinement could exist but in the superior order of his sex; and that such a youth was highly calculated to shine either in the sphere of war, or in the profession of a gentleman of taste and philosophic refine|ment.THUS, Females, whilst you see the avid|ity of a maid in her teens confronting dan|gers and made a veteran example in war, you need only half the assiduity in your pro|per, domestic sphere, to render your charms completely irresistible.GENERAL orders were, every warm sea|son, for the soldiers to go into the water, as well to exercise themselves in the art of swimming, as to clean their bodies. These 0