Adventures of the Pincushion
Designed Chiefly for the Use of Young Ladies (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Adventures of the Pincushion: Designed Chiefly for the Use of Young Ladies<br><br>The Author of the following sheets is well aware of the objections which may be made to the performance; but hopes the candour of the public will excuse those defects, which the nature of the undertaking rendered it almost impossible to avoid. The pointed satire of ridicule, which would perhaps have given a zest to those scenes in which the subject of these pages was engaged, was not, in the opinion of the writer, at all proper for those readers for whom it was solely designed: to exhibit their superiors in a ridiculous view, is not the proper method to engage the youthful mind to respect: to represent their equals as the objects of contemptuous mirth, is by no means favourable to the interests of good-nature: and to treat the characters of their inferiors with levity, the author thought was inconsistent with the sacred rights of humanity. Circumscribed, therefore, to the narrow boundaries of simple narrative, it has been the design of the following pages carefully to avoid exciting any wrong impression, and, by sometimes blending instruction and amusement, to make it more easily retained.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.