Barton Parton MORAL SKETCHES OF PREVAILING OPINIONS AND MANNERS, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC: WITH Reflections on Prayer. BY HANNAH MORE. Let us make a stand on the ancient ways, and then look about I know not which is the greater wonder, either that prayer, The Second Edition. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, IN THE STRAND. PREFACE. Ir is with the sincerest satisfaction, and the most lively gratitude to God, that the writer of these pages is enabled to bear her feeble but heartfelt testimony, to the progress which religion has made, and is making, amongst us, especially in the higher, and even the highest, ranks of society. At a period, therefore, abounding and advancing in almost every kind of religious improvement, she may be thought by those who would be looking for congratulation rather than caution, to have imposed on herself an invidious task, in choosing to dwell less on the triumphs of |