Excerpt from Poems on Various Subjects HE following Poems appearing in Print through the liberality of the Public, the Author deems it her indifpenfable duty to return her mof't grateful thanks to every individual who has contributed to their appearance. It may be proper to obferve, that Tome of the Pieces being perfonal or local, can be intereliing to thofe only who are acquainted with particular circuml'tances and fituations. The greater part are on general fubjeels, and were defigned by the writer to de feribe the advantages refulting from rectitude of manners; to imprefs on others the conviction pro duced in her own heart of the irritability of human happinefs 3 and to direct the mind to what ought to be the chief object of its attention, the hope of attaining a fiate, where the wicked ceafe from. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.