Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1796 edition. Excerpt: ... '. " C H A P. XIX. Charily.--The History of Peggy and her Family.--"The Sailor s Widow. IH AVE often remarked to yon, saidMrs. Mason one morning to her pupils, that we are all dependent on each other; and this dependence is wisely ordered by our Heavenly Father, to call forth many virtues, to exercise the best affections of the human heart, and fix. them into habits, While we impart pleasure we receive it, DEGREESnd feel the grandeur of our immortal soul, as it is constantly struggling to spread .itself into futurity. " Perhaps the greatest pleasure I have ever received has arisen from the habitual exercise of charity, in its various branches: the view of a distressed object has made me now think of conyerfing about one branch of it, that of giving alms. You know Peggy, the young girl whom I wish to have most about my person; I - 'v mean, mean, I wish it for her own sake, that's may have an opportunity of improving her mind, and cultivating a good capacity. As to attendance, I never give much trouble to any fellow-creature; for I choose to be independent of caprice and artificial wants, unless indeed when I am sick; then, I thankfully receive the assistance I would willingly give to others in the fame situation. I believe I have not in the world a more faithful friend than Peggy; and her earnest desire to please me gratifies my benevolence, for I always observe with delight the workings of a grateful heart. I lost a darling child, said Mrs. Mason, smothering a sigh, in the depth of winter: death had before deprived me of her father, and when I lost my child, -he died again. .. - The wintery prospects suiting the temper of my soul, I have sat looking at a wide waste of trackless snow for hours; and the heavy, sullen fog, that the..."
