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Often appears with: wisdom and understanding · will, choice, and freedom · marriage and betrothal · friendship vs appetite · education and the training of the young · duplicity cautions
Usually: argument (1) · temptation (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (1)
She argues for simpler principles in love and friendship, claims that vanity and duplicity degrade women, and insists that education should build understanding, wisdom, and the energy to love and trust.
privileges of friendship, or the momentary homage which the heart pays to virtue, when it flashes suddenly on the notice--mere animal spirits have no claim to the kindnesses of affection. Wishing to feed the affections with what is now the food of vanity, I would fain persuade my sex to act from simpler principles. Let them merit love, and they will obtain it, though they may never be told that: "The power of a fi…