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Excerpt from The Works of William Carleton, Vol. 2
His family, which consisted of his wife, one son, and three daughters, had, as might be expected, imbibed a deep sense of that reli gion, the serene beauty of which shone so steadily along their father's path of life. Mrs. Sinclair hadbeen well educated, and in her husband's conversation and society found further opportunity of improving, not only her intellect, but her heart. Though respect ably descended, she could not claim relation ship with what may be emphatically termed the gentry of the country but she could with that class so prevalent in the north of Ireland which ranks in bi1th only one grade beneat ii them I say in bi1th; - f01 in all the decencies of life, in the unostcntat-ious boun ties of benevolehce, in moral purity, domes tic harmony, and a conscientious observance of religion, both in the comeliness of its forms, and the cheerful freedom of its spirit, this class ranks immeasurably above every other which Irish society presents. They who compose it are not sufficiently wealthy to relax those pursuits of honorable industry which constitute them, as a people, the orna ment of our nation; nor does their good sense and decent pride permit them to, fol low the dictates of a mean ambition, by struggling to reach that false elevation, which is as much beneath them in all the virtues that grace life, as it is above them in the dazzling dissipation which renders the Viola tion or neglect of its best duties a matter of fashionable etiquette, or the shameful privi lege of high birth. To this respectable and independent class did the immediate rela tions of Mis. Sinclair belong and, as might be expected, she failed not to b1ing all >c>its virtues to her husband's heart and household - there to soothe him by their in?uence, to draw fresh energy from their mutual inter course, and to shape the habits of their fam ily into that perception of self-respect and decent propriety, which in domestic duty, dress, and general conduct, uniformly results from a fine sense of moral feeling, blended with high religious principle.
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