Domestic Happiness Portrayed, or a Repository for Those Who Are, and Those Who Are Not Married

Excerpt from Domestic Happiness Portrayed, or a Repository for Those Who Are, and Those Who Are Not Married

The promise comes down to us without abatement. Thirty years additional age upon these treasures has proved only, that, like good wine, they improve the longer they are preserved.

Pains have been taken in the present compilation to counteract, by selections from modem pens, such reflections on the character of the female sex, and such allusions to the state of society, as are local, and which the improvements of time and the elevation of mental culture have rendered incorrect and unjust. Flanked, therefore, by such respectable and tried authority, the editor confidently echoes the hope of the original compiler, that he may both contribute to the improvement and felicity of the married, and lead such as are eking out their pilgrimage in single blessedness, in the most sure and profitable way of doubling it.

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