The Family Monitor —— Or a Help to Domestic Happiness

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ISBN: 9781330076859 出版年：2016 页码：229 John Angell James Forgotten Books

It is an unquestionable truth, that if a man be not happy at home, he cannot be happy any where; and the con verse of the proposition is no less true, that he who is hap py there, need be miserable no where. It is the place of all the world I love most, said the interesting Author of the Task, when speaking of home. And lee may be feli citated who can say the same. Any attempt, however fee ble, to render the domestic circle what it ever should be, a scene of comfort, is at least benevolent. Nor is this a hopeless effort; for he who has the Bible in his hand, and speaks as the oracles of God, can disclose at once, and in few words, the important secret. The principles of great est consequence to mankind, whether we refer to science or to morals, lie not buried deep in gloom and mystery, but are to be found, «like the manna of the Israelites, upon the surface of things. The secret of happiness lies folded up in the leaves of the Bible, and is carried in the bosom of religion. The Author knows of no other way to feli city, and therefore does not profess to teach any other.