A Father's Legacy to His Daughters : With a Biographical Sketch of the Author
A Father's Legacy to His Daughters : With a Biographical Sketch of the Author
Gregory, John, 1724-1773
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WJiatever ^our views are in marrying, take eveiy possible ])recaution to [)revent their being disappointed. If fortune, and ihe pleasures it brings, are your aim, it is not sufficient that the settlements of a jointure and children's provisions be ample, and properly secured; it is necessary that you should enjoy the fortune during your own life. The principal security you can have for this will depend on yoni raaiTying a good-natured, generous man, who despises money, and who will let you live... where you can best enjoy that pleasure, tiiat pomp and parade of life, for which you married him. From what I have said, you will easily see. that 1 could never pretend to advise whom you sliould marry : but I can with great confidence advise whom you should not marry. Avoid a- companion that may entail any hereditary disease on your posterity, particularly (that most dread- ful of all human calamities) madness. It is the hcnght of imprudence to run into such a danger, and, in my opinion, highly criminal.
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