Lifes Progress Through the Passions

Life's Progress Through the
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Title: Life's Progress Through The Passions Or, The Adventures of
Natura
Author: Eliza Fowler Haywood
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April 2, 1748.
The late great Demand for the FORTUNATE FOUNDLINGS,
occasioning it to be out of Print sooner than was expected; this is to
advertise the Public, that a new Edition of that Book is now in the Press,
and will be published the Beginning of next Month.
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LIFE's PROGRESS THROUGH THE PASSIONS:
OR, THE ADVENTURES OF NATURA.
By the Author of The FORTUNATE FOUNDLINGS.
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distinguished Judges, have been so frequently inserted in all the public
Papers, that it is presumed no one can be unacquainted with them, and
therefore are thought needless here to be particularized: But that so
useful a Work may be more universally read, (especially by the
younger and politer Sort of Ladies, for whom it is more peculiarly
adapted,) it is now printed in the above-mentioned Size, which will be
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CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION, Page 1.
BOOK the First.
CHAP. I.
Shews, in the example of Natura, how from our very birth, the passions,

to which the human soul is incident, are discoverable in us; and how far
the organs of sense, or what is called the constitution, has an effect over
us, Page 4.
CHAP. II.
Contains some proofs by what swift degrees the passions gain an
ascendant over the mind, and grow up in proportion with our reason,
Page 7.
CHAP. III.
The early influence which the difference of sex excites, is here
exemplified, in the fond, but innocent affection of Natura and Delia,
Page 21.
CHAP. IV.
Shews, that till we arrive at a certain age, the impressions made on us
are easily erased; and also that when those which bear the name of love
are once rooted in the mind, there are no lengths to which we may not
be transported by that passion, if great care is not taken to prevent its
getting the ascendant over reason, Page 27.
CHAP. V.
That to indulge any one fault, brings with it the temptation of
committing others, is demonstrated by the behaviour of Natura, and the
misfortunes and disgrace, which an ill-judged shame had like to have
involved him in, Page 39.
CHAP. VI.
Shews the great force of natural affection, and the