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Excerpt from The Beauties of History, or Pictures of Virtue and Vice: Drawn From Examples of Men Eminent for Their Virtues, or Infamous for Their Vices; Selected for the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth Doubtless you have all too much ingenuousness of temper, to think of repaying the fears and bleeding anxieties they have experienced for your welfare by deeds of unkindness, which will pierce them to the soul; which will perhaps break the string of a heart, of which you, and you only, have long had the sole possession No, my young friends so far from this, you will think it the greatest happiness of your lives to follow our bles sed Saviour's example, and to shew the most ten der concern for your parents particularly if, like his, your's should happen to be a widowed parent; a mother deprived of her chief happiness and stay, by the loss of a husband for which nothing can compensate, but the dutiful and affectionate beha viour of her children who are bound, in that case, to manifest double kindness, and to alleviate, by all the tenderness and affection imaginable, the many difficulties and sorrows of widowhood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.