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Excerpt from The Boarding School, or Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils: Consisting of Information, Instruction and Advice, Calculated to Improve the Manners and Form the Character of Young LadiesAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digit...

Excerpt from The Coquette, or the Life and Letters of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on FactThe romance of Eliza Wharton appeared in print not many years subsequent to the assumed transactions it so faithfully attempts to record. Written as it was by one highly educated for the times, the popular wife of a popular clergyman, connected in no distant degree, by marriage, with the family of the heroine, and one who by the very profession and posi...

Excerpt from The Boarding School, or Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils: Consisting of Information, Instruction and Advice, Calculated to Improve the Manners and Form the Character of Young Ladies She had two daughters, lovely and promis ing as ever parent could boast. Mrs. Williams' circumstances were easy. She possessed a little patrimony, to which she retired, after her husband's decease but a desire of preserving this for her childre...

Excerpt from The Coquette, or the Life and Letters of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact HE who waits beside the folded gates of mys tery, over which forever ¿oat the impurpled vapors of the past, should stand with girded loins, and white, unshodden feet. So he who attempts to lift the veil that separates the real from the ideal, or to remove the heavy curtain that for a century may have concealed from view the actual person ages of a wel...