Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Hannah More, Vol. 2 of 2
We commence the year 1797 with the following letter from Bishop Porteus.
St. James's Square, Jan. 16, 1797.
My dear Mrs. More,
For many virtues I allow you a very competent degree of merit; but none at all for what you call temperance, but what I call niggardliness, in writing. If you would be a little more liberal and even profuse in this article, your character would stand much higher in my estimation than it does at present. You would hear the history of Fulham (which is not so eventful or so pregnant with revolutions as that of France) from Mrs. Kennicott. One of our evening books was a collection of Arabic Poems, translated into English by Mr. Carlisle, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge. The originals are prefixed to the translations, but we chose to read the latter. They are not all equally good, but the greater part of them are exquisitely beautiful, and the more so for being totally unlike all the oriental poetry I ever read before, which, to say the truth, I am not in general much enamoured of. They resemble very much the best European sonnets and elegies, but are much superior to them. And what think you of an Arabic riddle and charade? Mr. Pitt, I am told, is quite in raptures with them, and can say most of them by heart. But there is another book with which we are still more delighted (I ought to add edified) than all the rest, and that is what I dare say you have devoured with your usual voracity on such subjects, - Gisborne's Duties of the Female Sex. It is, in all respects, excellent. I hope it will be read by every female that can read in the kingdom. I told Lady Elgin that she should make her little pupil read it immediately. How unfortunate have we been about the French fleet, yet how thankful ought we to be to Providence for defeating their destructive projects!
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