The Family Monitor; Or, a Help to Domestic Happiness
The Family Monitor; Or, a Help to Domestic Happiness
James, John Angell, 1785-1859
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Let your kindness operate in the way of affording' thtm all things necessary for their comfort The au- thor of the iEneid has denominated his hero the pums iEneas, because of the heroic manner in which he bore his decrepit father from the flames of Troy. Two in- habitants of Sicily obtained a celebrity in ancient story for their kindness to their aged parents in carrying them upon their shoulders from an irruption of Mount Etna. We have another instance of modem times. Mr. Robert Tillotson went... up to London on a visit to his son, then dean of Canterbury, and, being in tlie dress of a plain countryman, was insulted by one of the dean's servants for inquiring if John TiUotson was at home. His person, however, being described to the dean, be immediately exclaimed, " It is my worthy father ;" and, running down to the door to receive him, he fell down upon his knees in the presence of his servants, to a^ his father's blessing. And how has the poet, the historian, and the painter, loved to exhibit that beautiful picture of filial piety, first given by Pliny, of a daughter, who.
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