The Ladies Library (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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May tempt us to think irreverently of them. Tl very contrary to the practice of too many children, do not only publilh and deride the infirmities of parents, but pretend they have thofe infirmities I they have not, There is commonly {uch a headinefs in youth, that they cannot bear to the counfels and cireaions of their elders, andt fore to lhake them ofl', are willing to have then for the efi'efls of dotage, when they are indeed the! Of {obriety and experience. Hearken to thy i that begat thee, fays the wife man, and not thy mother when {he is old But the youth 0 age fet up for wifdom the quite contrary way, and I that by defpifing and ridiculing their parents, they acquire the reputation of wits. If uch will not] tife Solomon's exhortations, let them remembe threats. The eye that mocketh his father, and f ifeth to obey his mother, the ravens of the v {iiall pluck it out, and the young eagles {hall eat' Love is another duty which we owe our parent; are to be heartily defirous of all manner of good to'h and to abhor to do any thing that may grieve or difi them. This will appeir by common gratitude, when remembered what our parents have done for us, they were not only the inflrumcnts of bringing us the world, but alfo of fuzlaining and fupporting usa Certainly they that rightly weigh the cares and: thatgo to the bringing up of a child, willjudge the of that child to be but a tolerable return for them; love is to be exprefi in all kindnefs of behaviour. Mull gladly and readily do thofc things which mayh joy and comfort to them And fince the debt 3 t owes a parent is {0 great, that he can never h0pe l {elf to difchar c it, he is therefore to call on Gut prayer, and togbeg of him that he will reward all good his parents have done for him, by multipl} his beflings upon them. What {hall we then {i.

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