Advice from a lady of quality to her children, in the last stage of a lingering illness. Translated from the French, by S. Glasse, D.D. F.R.S.... [-II]

"A LADY of high rank, instructing her children in virtue and religion, and forming their tender minds to whatsoever may render them wise and good, seems, for very obvious reasons, particularly entitled to your Majesty's gracious attention. But though the resemblance betwixt your Majesty and the principal character before you, so far as her parental solicitude extends, is too striking to escape our notice; yet do we thankfully reflect, that in one respect a very essential difference may be observed: this lady, MADAM, employed only the uncertain intervals of sickness, and the anxious moments of an expiring life, in the discharge of that important duty, which is well known to engage your Majesty's best hours of youth, and health, and vigour."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.