Marry For Love, An Heroick Action, Which

We Ought As Much As We Can To Endeavour The Perfecting Of Our Beings, And That We Be As Happy As Possibly We May.

The Design Of Rhetoric Is To Remove Those Prejudices That Lie In The Way Of Truth, To Reduce The Passions To The Government Of Reasons; To Place Our Subject In A Right Light, And Excite Our Hearers To A Due Consideration Of It.

Tis Very Great Pity That They Who Are So Apt To Over-rate Themselves In Smaller Matters, Shou'd, Where It Most Concerns Them To Know, And Stand Upon Their Value, Be So Insensible Of Their Own Worth.

Hitherto I Have Courted Truth With A Kind Of Romantick Passion, In Spite Of All Difficulties And Discouragements: For Knowledge Is Thought So Unnecessary An Accomplishment For A Woman, That Few Will Give Themselves The Trouble To Assist Us In The Attainment Of It.

Marry For Love, An Heroick Action, Which Makes A Mighty Noise In The World, Partly Because Of Its Rarity, And Partly In Regard Of Its Extravagancy.