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The following little work is based upon a small volume, composed by a lady, who has done, and is still doing, much to enlighten and instruct child hood and youth, and indeed many of a still ma turer age - a lady, who, to her credit be it said, has made it the great end and aim of her being, to inculcate correct knowledge and sound princi ples in the minds of the young - a lady, who has strong claims upon our good-will and gratitude, for the charms with which she has invested numerous subjects, otherwise dry and uninteresting, and for the happy manner in which she has simplified, and brought down to the capacity of ordinary minds, many matters of science, that, without such aid, would have been far too abstruse for the majority Of readers. This lady is Mrs. Marcet, who, many years since, became favorably known by her very excellent work, entitled, Conversations on Chemistry,' of which, it is scarcely too much to say, that it did more to excite an interest and.
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