FENELON's TREATISE

ON THE

EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS:

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH,
AND
ADAPTED TO ENGLISH READERS,
With an Original Chapter,
"On Religious Studies."


BY THE REV. T. F. DIBDIN, B.A. F.A.S.
Author of
"An Introduction to the Knowledge of the best Editions of
the Greek and Latin Classics
," &c.


"Chaste and modest writings never alter the honour of any gentlewoman. For as the remembrance of infamous persons is much detested and hated by the Muses—so is the glory and renown of the virtuous installed by them in eternal memory for ever."

Pastorals of Julietta. Fol. Edit. 1610.
Pt. 3, p. 88.

So in this pilgrimage I would behold
You, as you are—Virtue's Temple!
Donne's Poems. Edit. 1650. p. 156.
[To the Countess of Bedford.]