ΤΕΜΡΤΑ Τ Ι Ο Ν.

VOL. I.

OR,

A WIFE'S PERILS.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,

GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1839.

KONINKLIJKE

BIBLIOTHEEK

WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.

PREFACE.

THE object of the Authoress in the following work, has been a moral one. She has endeavoured (however imperfectly), to show, first, that innocence of heart, and natural good dispositions, are utterly insufficient of themselves, as a preservation from danger; and that in order to be secure, the principles must be first solidly grounded on, and afterwards governed by, religion:-secondly, that misery and remorse of the bitterest kind, must invariably follow any wrong exercise of the affections, even in