The Miscellaneous Works
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ISBN13: 9780217092111
Paperback|9780217092111
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: in perfection, which was prudence, too often the only one that ia left us at seventy-two. CHAPTER III. A MIGRATION. THE FORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES OF OUR LIVES ARK GENERALLY FOUND AT LAST TO BE OF OUR OWN PROCURING. The only hope of our family now was, that the report of our misfortune might be malicious or premature: but a letter from my agent in town soon came with a confirmation of every particular. The loss of fortune to myself alone would have been trifling; the only uneasiness I felt was for my family, who were to be humble without an education to render them callous to contempt Near a fortnight had passed before I attempted to restrain their affliction; for premature consolation is but the remembrancer of sorrow. During this interval, my thoughts were employed on some future means of supporting them; and at last a small cure of fifteen pounds a-year was offered me in a distant neighborhood, where I could still enjoy my principles without molestation. With this proposal I joyfully closed, having determined to increase my salary by managing a little farm. Having taken this resolution, my next care was to get together the wrecks of my fortune; and, all debts collected and paid, out of fourteen thousand pounds we had but four hundred remaining. My chief attention, therefore, was now to bring downthe pride of my family to their circumstances; for I well knew that aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself. You cannot be ignorant, my children, cried I, that no prudence of ours could have prevented our late misfortune; but prudence may do much in disappointing its effects. We are now poor, my fondlings, andwisdom bids us conform to our humble situation. Let us, then, without repining, give up those splendors with which numbers are wretched, and seek in humbler c...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217092111 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021709211X |
| Weight | 0.66 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $24.39 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 198 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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