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Letters on Practical Subjects To A Daughter - Marriage

The Narrated Puritan
The Narrated Puritan
Episode • Aug 6, 2023 • 21m
Do not marry a man of an irritable, violent, or overbearing temper. There is nothing with which domestic enjoyment is more intimately connected, than a naturally amiable and affectionate disposition- and the absence of this, is sure to render a delicate and sensitive girl, in no small degree, unhappy. To be compelled to witness frequent ebullitions of angry passion - to hear her well-intended actions often complained of, and her purest motives bitterly impeached - to feel that the stern hand of power is stretched over, rather than the soft arm of kindness laid beneath her - this is a lot from which it would seem the gentleness of female character ought to claim an exemption.

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