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TO THE
LADIES OF GREAT BRITAIN
It has often been observed, that dedications are appendages calculated for works of a voluminous and important nature; yet as there are many Ladies in England, whose distinguished worth is at once an ornament to their Country, and whose example, both in private and public life, render them the most amiable patterns of domestic œconomy, and who consider it no degradation to their character, in descending to recommend to their domestics whatever may be either useful or ornamental at their tables: to them the fol-
lowing
