The oeconomy of human life. To which is added, an Appendix

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Pagina 29 - ... her kindness addeth wings to their feet. In prosperity she is not puffed up ; in adversity she healeth the wounds of fortune with patience. The troubles of her husband are alleviated by her counsels, and sweetened by her endearments : he putteth his heart in her bosom, and receiveth comfort. Happy is the man that hath made her his wife ; happy the child that calleth her mother.
Pagina 48 - The hand of the generous man is like the clouds of heaven, which drop upon the earth, fruits, herbage, and flowers...
Pagina 33 - Forget not thy helpless infancy, nor the frowardness of thy youth, and indulge the infirmities of thy aged parents ; assist and support them in the decline of life. So shall their hoary heads go down to the...
Pagina 5 - He despiseth the judgment of others ; he relieth on his own opinion, and is confounded. He is puffed up with the vanity of his imagination : his delight is to hear and to speak of himself all the day long. He swalloweth with greediness his own praise, and the flatterer in return eateth him up.
Pagina 15 - Look round her board, cast thine eyes upon her guests, and observe those who have been allured by her smiles, who have listened to her temptations. " Are they not meagre ? are they not sickly ? are they not spiritless ? " Their short hours of jollity and riot are followed by...
Pagina 14 - Yet if thou sufferest not the allurements of fortune to rob thee of justice, or temperance, or charity, or modesty, even riches themselves shall not make thee unhappy. But hence shalt thou learn, that the cup of felicity, pure and unmixed, is by no means a draught for mortal man.
Pagina 22 - As the whirlwind, in its fury, teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature ; or as an earthquake, in its convulsions, overturneth whole cities ; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him ; danger and destruction wait on his hand.
Pagina 26 - The whiteness of her bosom transcendeth the lily; her smile is more delicious than a garden of roses. The innocence of her eye is like that of the turtle ; simplicity and truth dwell in her heart. The kisses of her mouth are sweeter than honey; the perfumes of Arabia breathe from her lips. Shut not thy bosom...
Pagina 54 - ... stations of men. The high and the low, the rich and the poor, the...
Pagina 43 - O son of humanity ! who honoured thee with reason ; endued thee with speech ; and placed thee in society, to receive and confer reciprocal helps and mutual obligations. Thy food, thy clothing, thy convenience of habitation ; thy protection from the injuries, thy enjoyment of the comforts and the pleasures of life : all these thou owest to the assistance of others, and couldst not enjoy but in the bands of society. It is thy duty, therefore, to be a friend to...

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