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Hints For The Oeconomy Of Time, Expence, Learning, And Morality;
io . Let all j'our time be spent upon yourself , and let your constant : admiration of your own perfections absorb all the praise that is due from you to others . II . Fill up your time as much as possible with pleasures that exclude participation : on this account , the time spent in decorating-3 'our persons , and in the pleasures of the table , is worthily emp ^ x-d ;
for then self is the sole object of it , and not a single moment is alienated from us . 12 . The last and greatest rule is this : —Allow no time for praying , or for works of charity ; for this is giving up a portion of our time to eternity , which is a greater absurdity than sending presents to Crcesus , or pouring water into the ocean . EXPENCE .
i . All expensive feelings and sensations to be subdued ; such as compassion , generosity , patriotism , and public spirit . 2 . The money bestowed on horses to be saved out of the education of our children ; they are therefore to be sent to school where the cheapest bargain can be made for them . 3 . To banish hospitality from our bosoms , ' and to ask the company of our friends for the sake of pillaging them at playand in a view to
, the douceurs which they in course leave behind them , and which we divide with our servants . 4 . To sacrifice comfort to ostentation in every article of life ; to go without substantial conveniencies for the sake of shining superfluities ; to be mean and sordid under the rose , that we may look iike prodigals in public ; and to live like beggars in secretto litter
, g like princes abroad . 5 . To abandon all poor relations , and to make presents only to those who are much richer than ourselves , in the expectation of being gainers at last . 6 . To be loud against the ingratitude of the poor , which we have never experienced ; and to reserve our charity for deserving objects
, which we are determined never to acknowledge . 7 . To be active and forward in speculative schemes of charity , which we are well assured can never take place ; while we are silently raising our rents , to the ruin of distressed families . ¦ 8 . To pass by the door of Famine with our money glued to our pockets ; while , to see a new dancer at the opera in the evening , we
draw our purse-strings as generously as princes . 9 . To repair to the house of distress , not to dissipate our money in common-place acts of compassion and generosity , but to extort good bargains from hunger and necessity , and to purchase at cheap rates the last valuable relics of perishing fortunes . 10 . To be lavish of kind speeches , which cost nothing j , and to lament , when death has come in relief to misery , that the circumstances of so meiancholy a case were not known to us in time , to afford us the luxury of exercising our humanity .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Hints For The Oeconomy Of Time, Expence, Learning, And Morality;
io . Let all j'our time be spent upon yourself , and let your constant : admiration of your own perfections absorb all the praise that is due from you to others . II . Fill up your time as much as possible with pleasures that exclude participation : on this account , the time spent in decorating-3 'our persons , and in the pleasures of the table , is worthily emp ^ x-d ;
for then self is the sole object of it , and not a single moment is alienated from us . 12 . The last and greatest rule is this : —Allow no time for praying , or for works of charity ; for this is giving up a portion of our time to eternity , which is a greater absurdity than sending presents to Crcesus , or pouring water into the ocean . EXPENCE .
i . All expensive feelings and sensations to be subdued ; such as compassion , generosity , patriotism , and public spirit . 2 . The money bestowed on horses to be saved out of the education of our children ; they are therefore to be sent to school where the cheapest bargain can be made for them . 3 . To banish hospitality from our bosoms , ' and to ask the company of our friends for the sake of pillaging them at playand in a view to
, the douceurs which they in course leave behind them , and which we divide with our servants . 4 . To sacrifice comfort to ostentation in every article of life ; to go without substantial conveniencies for the sake of shining superfluities ; to be mean and sordid under the rose , that we may look iike prodigals in public ; and to live like beggars in secretto litter
, g like princes abroad . 5 . To abandon all poor relations , and to make presents only to those who are much richer than ourselves , in the expectation of being gainers at last . 6 . To be loud against the ingratitude of the poor , which we have never experienced ; and to reserve our charity for deserving objects
, which we are determined never to acknowledge . 7 . To be active and forward in speculative schemes of charity , which we are well assured can never take place ; while we are silently raising our rents , to the ruin of distressed families . ¦ 8 . To pass by the door of Famine with our money glued to our pockets ; while , to see a new dancer at the opera in the evening , we
draw our purse-strings as generously as princes . 9 . To repair to the house of distress , not to dissipate our money in common-place acts of compassion and generosity , but to extort good bargains from hunger and necessity , and to purchase at cheap rates the last valuable relics of perishing fortunes . 10 . To be lavish of kind speeches , which cost nothing j , and to lament , when death has come in relief to misery , that the circumstances of so meiancholy a case were not known to us in time , to afford us the luxury of exercising our humanity .