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['concerning paratext:\r\n{Name of woman on title page}\r\n{Name of translator NOT on title page}\r\n\r\n3-7 Memoirs of the Life of the Marchioness de Lambert.\r\nAnna Teresa de Marguenalt [sic] de Courcelles, Marchioness of Lambert, the ingenious and excellent Authress of the Pieces we have at length an Opportunity of presenting, at one view, to the English reader, was the only daughter [...]\r\n\r\n9: Advice of a mother to her son and daughter.\r\nTranslated by Mr. Tho.Carte.\r\n\r\n11-12 Preface to the Advice of a Mother to her Son and Daughter\r\nThe Author of the following Treatise is Madame de Lambert, a French Lady of great Quality and Merit, distinguished above others by the extent of her knowledge, the excellence of her judgment, and a superiority of good sense, in a country where the ladies in general are much more careful to cultivate their minds than adorn their bodies. Dress the great business and the darling care of the fair sex on this side the water, is on the other left to the Petits-Maitres, the pretty fellows of the age; who, by the help of a vivacity natural to a French-man, do really make a tolerable figure there till they enter into conversation; a figure, which however inviting enough for the Coxcombs of our melancholy isle to imitate in their aukward way, is yet after all, despicable in the eyes of ladies, who pay a much greater regard to the good qualities which form (what we call) the Mind of Man, than to any ornaments of his dress, or any circumstances of his fortune. [.../...]\r\n12\r\nTo read it was to like it; and he liked it so well, that he thought he could not divert a confinement of a few days better, than by translating it. The fire and vivacity of the French genius and of the expressions which flow from it [were difficulted to render ...]\r\n\r\nIncipit\r\n13\r\n"Whatever care is used in the education of children, it is still too little to answer the end; ..."\r\n\r\np. 47\r\nAdvice of a mother to her daughter\r\nThe world has in all ages been very negligent in the Education of Daughters; all their care is laid out entirely upon the men; and as if the women were a distinct species, they leave them to themselves without any helps, without thinking that they compose one half of the world [...]\r\nsvdjun10chawton']
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