ces to mutual Happiness) is an Addition to that Pleasure. Had you consulted me, as a Friend, on the Occasion, Youth on both sides I should not have thought any Objection. Indeed from the Matches that have fallen under my Observation, I am rather inclined to think that early ones stand the best Chance for Happiness. The Tempers and Habits of young People are not yet become so stiff and uncomplying as when more advanced in Life, they form more easily to each other, and thence many Occasions of Disgust are removed. And if Youth has less of that Prudence that is necessary to manage a Family, yet the Parents and elder Friends of young married Persons are generally at hand to afford their Advice, which amply supplies that Defect; and by early Marriage, Youth is sooner form’d to regular and useful Life, and possibly some of those Accidents Habits or Connections that might have injured either the Constitution or the Reputation, or both, are thereby happily prevented. Particular Circumstances of particular Persons may possibly sometimes make it prudent to delay entering into that State, but in general when Nature has render’d our Bodies fit for it, the Presumption is in Nature’s Favour, that she has not judg’d amiss in making us desire it. Late Marriages are often attended too with this farther Inconvenience, that there is not the same Chance the Parents shall live to see their offspring educated. Late Children, says the Spanish Proverb, are early Orphans: A melancholly Reflection to those whose Case it may be! With us in N. America, Marriages are generally in the Morning of Life, our Children are therefore educated and settled in the World by Noon, and thus our Business being done, we have an Afternoon and Evening of chearful Leisure to our selves, such as your Friend at present enjoys. By these early Marriages we are blest with more Children, and from the Mode among us founded in Nature of every Mother suckling and nursing her own Child, more of them are raised. Thence the swift Progress of Population among us unparallel’d in Europe. In fine, I am glad you are married, and congratulate you cordially upon it. You are now more in the way of becoming a useful Citizen; and you have escap’d the unnatural State of Celibacy for Life, the Fate of many here who never intended it, but who having too long postpon’d the Change of their Condition, find at length that ’tis too late to think of it, and So live all their Lives in a Situation that greatly lessens a Man’s Value: An odd Volume of a Set of Books, you know, is not worth its proportion of the Set; and what think you of the Usefulness of an odd Half of a Pair of Scissars? It cannot well cut any thing. It may possibly serve to scrape a Trencher. |
1789-05-01 · London, England
From The New Universal Magazine, or Miscellany of Historical, Philosophical, Political and Polite Literature 1747-1815
1789-06-01 · London, England
From The New Universal Magazine, or Miscellany of Historical, Philosophical, Political and Polite Literature 1747-1815
1789-06-01 · London, England
1789-06-15 · Sherborne, England
1789-10-10 · New-York [N.Y.]
From The American Museum, or, Universal Magazine, Containing, Essays on Agriculture - Commerce - Manufacturers - Politics - Morals - and Manners. Sketches of National Characters - Natural and Civil History - and Biography. Law Information - Public Papers - Intelligence. Moral Tales - Ancient and Modern Poetry (1789-1792)
1790-01-01 · Philadelphia
From The American Museum, or, Universal Magazine, Containing, Essays on Agriculture - Commerce - Manufacturers - Politics - Morals - and Manners. Sketches of National Characters - Natural and Civil History - and Biography. Law Information - Public Papers - Intelligence. Moral Tales - Ancient and Modern Poetry (1789-1792)
1790-01-01 · Philadelphia
From The Massachusetts Magazine; or, Monthly Museum. Containing the Literature, History, Politics, Arts, Manners & Amusements of the Age (1790-1796)
1790-09-01 · Boston
1797-03-24 · New York
1797-03-24 · New York
1797-03-24 · New York
1804-06-02 · New-York [N.Y.]
} BRE stndions, and you will be learned. Be ne Io,.; |
1805-02-01 · Martinsburg, Va.
“_Be studious, and you will be learn |
1807-04-18 · Richmond
1812-02-01 · Hudson
Be studious, and you will be learned. Be industrious |
1814-05-31 · Portsmouth [N.H.]
1814-07-16 · New-York [N.Y.]
1816-12-27 · London, England
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1817-01-01 · London, England
1817-01-04 · Ipswich, England
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1817-01-27 · Sherborne, England
1817-01-27 · Sherborne, England
and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, B. FRANKLIN, |
1817-08-01 · Edinburgh, Scotland
1818-05-02 · New York
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1820-08-12 · London, England
1821-07-15 · London, England
1822-01-01 · London, England
1822-02-14 · Kolkata, India
From The Religious Inquirer. Published by an Association of Gentlemen, Containing Doctrinal, Controversial, Historical, and Practical Matter, and Articles of Religious Intelligence and Miscellany (1821-1825)
1825-04-23 · Hartford
1825-08-20 · Philadelphia [Pa.]
dious, and you will belearned. Be industrious, |
1829-02-18 · Chillicothe, Ohio
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1829-06-10 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1830-02-08 · Columbia, S.C.
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1832-01-12 · Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]
While some convicts were passing through the streets of Glasgow, a woman struck at their hardened conduct, called out to them, "Ah!
1832-03-31 · Concord [N.H.]
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1832-04-18 · City of Washington [D.C.]
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1832-06-09 · Cincinnati
the set. What think you of an odd half of |
1832-08-01 · Burlington
destiny.—Be studious, and you will be learned. Be industrious and |
1832-10-01 · New York
1834-01-01 · New York
1834-01-01 · New York
1834-09-27 · Philadelphia
1834-10-11 · Providence, R.I.
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1834-11-18 · Fayetteville, N.C.
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1835-01-01 · New York
1835-04-01 · New York City, New York
1835-11-01 · Philadelphia
1835-11-03 · Portsmouth [N.H.]
1839-12-05 · Bath, Me.
1841-04-12 · Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]
1841-05-01 · Fayetteville [N.C.]
1841-05-01 · Fayetteville [N.C.]
1841-05-19 · Baltimore [Md.]
1841-06-09 · Cheraw, S.C.
1841-06-09 · Cheraw, S.C.
1841-08-07 · Macon, Miss.
1842-04-02 · Sydney, New South Wales
riotti's Italy. Bo studious in your |
1842-12-01 · Sydney, New South Wales
wise seldom as much. Treat your wife |
1845-07-19 · Boston
1848-02-15 · Columbus
Be studious, and you will be learned — Be industrious | |
1851-03-15 · Preston, England
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1851-06-19 · Indianapolis
1851-08-02 · London, England
“ By these early marriages we are blest with more |
1851-09-14 · London, England
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1851-09-21 · London, England
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1851-12-18 · Gallipolis, Ohio
1851-12-19 · Paris, Me.
a letter to a young friend, "with respect, it |
1852-02-17 · Richmond [Va.]
"Treat your wife," says Dr. Franklin in a |
1852-05-29 · Marshall, Tex.
a a letter to a young married friend, "With |
1853-06-09 · Washington [D.C.]
1856-03-28 · Paris, Me.
vice of Franklin to a new married couple |
1869-12-01 · New York City, New York
““By these early marriages we are blessed with more children; and from the mode among us, founded in nature, of every mother suckling and | |
1874-10-26 · New York [N.Y.]
the advice to a young married man:-"Treat your |
1877-05-01 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1879-02-19 · Columbus, Neb.
1885-12-10 · Belfast, Ireland
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1886-01-07 · Aberdeen, Scotland
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1886-02-04 · Ironton, Iron County, Mo.
1886-03-20 · Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]
1886-04-03 · London, England
1886-04-28 · Tionesta, Pa.
1887-07-21 · Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.
1887-09-03 · Boston
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1887-09-03 · Lehighton, Pa.
babies." |
1887-09-09 · Kenosha, Wis.
1887-09-16 · Jasper, Ind.
condition of the soils and climates of |
1887-09-30 · Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.
1888-05-03 · Ipswich, England
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