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In Search of a Wife; Comprending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion, and Morals

In Search of a Wife; Comprending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion, and Morals

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ISBN10: 1151087254
ISBN13: 9781151087256
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.14 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1809 Excerpt: ... It is impossible to describe the mingled aid conflicting emotions of my foul, while I perused this letter. Gratitude that I had possessed such a father--sorrow that I had lost him--transport in anticipating an event which had been his earnest wish for almost twenty years--regret that he was not permitted to witness it, --devout joy that he was in a state so superior to even my sense of happiness, --a strong feeling of the uncertainty and brevity of all happiness, --a solemn resolution that I would never act unworthy of such a father, --a fervent prayer that I might be enabled to keep that resolution: --all these emotions so agitated and divided my whole mind, as to render me unfit for any society, even for that of Lucilla. I withdrew, gratefully pressing Mr. Stanley's hand he kindly returned the pressure, but neither of us attempted to speak. He silently put my father's pacquet into my hands. I shut myself into my apartment, and read for three hours, letters for which I hope to be the better in time and in eternity. I found in them a treasure of religious wisdom, excellent maxims of human prudence, a thorough acquaintance with life and manners, a keen insight into human nature in the abstract, and a nice discrimination of individual characters; admirable documents for general education, the application of those documents to my particular turn of character, and diversified methods for improving it.--The pure delight to which I looked forward in reading these letters with Lucilla, soon became my predominant feeling. I returned to the company with a sense of felicity, which the above feelings and re flections had composed into a soothing tranquillity. My joy was sobered without being abated. I received the cordial congratulations of my friends. Mrs. Stanley behave...