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I have suppressed my friend's name from an apprehension of wounding his sensibility; but I would not withhold from my readers a passage which shews Mr. Garrick's mode of writing as the Manager of a Theatre, and contains a pleasing trait of his domestick life. His judgment of dramatick pieces, so far as concerns their exhibition on the stage, must be allowed to have considerable weight.
Another political reason which prompted my father so strongly to guard against the least evil accident in my mother's lying-in in the country, was, That any such instance would infallibly throw a balance of power, too great already, into the weaker vessels of the gentry, in his own, or higher stations; which, with the many other usurped rights which that part of the constitution was hourly establishing, would, in the end, prove fatal to the monarchical system of domestick government established in the first creation of things by God.
This periodical dispersion impresses strongly the scarcity of these countries. Having heard of no boarding-school for ladies nearer than Inverness, I suppose their education is generally domestick. The elder daughters of the higher families are sent into the world, and may contribute by their acquisitions to the improvement of the rest. Women must here study to be either pleasing or useful.
It animates and sweetens Conversation, by raising innocent Mirth and good Humour; and by this Effect it relieves Domestick Cares, revives Men of Business and studious Professions, and softens the Asperity of morose Dispositions.
The hall was for great occasions, and never was used for domestick refection . We talked of the Union, and what money it had brought into Scotland. Dr. Watson observed, that a little money formerly went as far as a great deal now. JOHNSON. 'In speculation, it seems that a smaller quantity of money, equal in value to a larger quantity, if equally divided, should produce the same effect.
The leather of Sky is not completely penetrated by vegetable matter, and therefore cannot be very durable. My inquiries about brogues, gave me an early specimen of Highland information. One day I was told, that to make brogues was a domestick art, which every man practised for himself, and that a pair of brogues was the work of an hour.
Next to the consideration of our inward domestick strength, what foreign assistances have we to justify this measure? Are we sure of one positive active ally in the world? Nay, are not we morally certain that our nearest, most natural ally, disavows the proceeding, and refuses to cooperate with us?
She must be a good daughter and fond of Domestick life and pious, without ostentation, for remember no Woman without the fear of God, can either make a good Wife or a good Mother freethinking Men are shocking to nature, but from an Infidel Woman Good Lord deliver us.
'I came home on the 18th at noon to a very disconsolate house. You and I have lost our friends ; but you have more friends at home. My domestick companion is taken from me. She is much missed, for her acquisitions were many, and her curiosity universal; so that she partook of every conversation . I am not well enough to go much out; and to sit, and eat, or fast alone, is very wearisome.
Doctor Bicchierei, with that liberality which ever is found to attend real learning, prescribed James's powders to her, and bid me attend to Buchan's Domestick Medicine, and I should do well enough he said. Mr. Greatheed, Mr. Parsons, Mr. Biddulph, and Mr.
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