The Letter Writer: Containing a Great Variety of Letters on the Following Subjects: Relationship; Business; Love, Courtship, and Marriage; Friendship, and Miscellaneous Letters: Selected from Judicious and Eminent Writers

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G. Davidson, 1827 - 276 Seiten

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An urgent Demand of payment
60
The Earl of Stafford to his Son just before his Lordships
65
From a Tradesman to a Customer demanding payment
66
The Answer
71
To a Person who wants to borrow Money of another
72
From a Tradesman to a Wholesale dealer to delay pay
87
From the Servant of a wholesale Dealer to his Master
93
PART IIILOVE COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE Let Page 93 From a Young Gentleman to a Lady with whom he is in Love
99
The Ladys Answer
100
The Gentlemans Reply
101
From the young gentlemans Mother to the young Lady
102
The Young Ladys Answer
103
The Young Lady to the Young Gentleman
104
From the Same
105
The Young Gentlemans Answer
106
From the Lady after Marriage to an unmarried Cousin
107
From a young Merchant in New York to a Widow Lady in the Country
109
The Ladys Letter to her Brother an Attorney concern ing the above
110
The Brothers Answer
111
From the Lady to Mr Moreton
112
From a young Gentleman in expectation of an estate from a penurious Uncle to a young Lady of small for tune desiring her to elope with him
113
The Ladys prudent Answer
114
From a young Officer to a Lady with whom he is in love
115
The Officers letter to the Ladys Father
116
The young Ladys Letter to her Lover
118
The Fathers Answer to the young Gentleman
119
Sweetheart in the neighborhood
121
The Answer
122
From the Gentlemau
123
The Ladys Answer
125
The Gentlemans Reply
127
From the Lady in Answer
129
The Brothers Letter
130
From the Gentleman after his arrival in London to the Lady in the Country
132
From a Lover to his Mistress lately recovered from Sick
134
ness
135
The Young Ladys Answer
136
The Gentlemans Reply
137
From a young Tradesman to a gentleman desiring per mission to visit his daughter
149
From the same to the Young Lady by permission of the Father
150
From a Widow to a Young Man rejecting his suit
151
From a Young Lady to a Gentleman that courted her whom she could not esteem but forced by her Parents to receive his visits
152
From a Young Lady in the country to her Father ac quainting him with an offer made to her of Marriage
153
The Answer
154
From a Gentleman to a Lady whom he accuses of Incon stancy
156
The Ladys Answer
157
From a Father to his Daughters on Love and Friendship
158
From the same to the same on the foregoing subject
163
From a Father to his Daughters on Courtship and Coquet ish Behaviour
167
From the same to the same on the foregoing subject
170
From a Father to his Daughters on Marriage
174
From the same to the same on the foregoing subject
178
FRIENDSHIP 148 A Letter on Friendship written by a Gentleman de ceased and found amongst his papers
181
From a young Woman to a Lady with whom she had for merly lived as a Companion
184
The Ladys Answer
186
From a Gentleman on his Travels abroad to his Friend in London on arbitrary power and Popish superstition
187
His Friends Answer
190
From a young Merchant to an aged Gentleman formerly of the same profession but now retired from business
192
The Answer
194
From a Gentleman in decayed circumstances in the coun try to another lately returned from the East Indies recommending his Son to his protection
197
The Answer
198
On Marriage from a Lady in town to her Friend in the country
200
To the same
203
From a Lady to her Friend whose Lover had basely de serted her and married another
206
From a Lady who had formerly kept a Boardingschool to another of the same profession on Female Education
208
To a young man on the commencement and pursuit of Trade
211
To a young Gentleman on his entering into the World with directions how to conduct himself
214
From Lady to her Friend who had buried her Husband
218
Let Page
220
To the same on the vicissitudes of Human Life
226
Dr Arbuthnot to Mr Pope
232
Dr Johnson to the Right Honorable Charles Jenkinson
238
The countess of Hertford to Dr Burnett occasioned
244
From Dr Franklin to John Alleyne on early Marriage
254
An ironical letter to a Slanderer
266

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Seite 219 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?
Seite 226 - We then relax our vigour and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
Seite 226 - Here the heart softens and vigilance subsides ; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure. We approach them with scruple...
Seite 227 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
Seite 256 - Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
Seite 227 - Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair : but shall remember, that, though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one...
Seite 228 - Those that have loved longest love best. A sudden blaze of kindness may by a single blast of coldness be extinguished; but that fondness which length of time has connected with many circumstances and occasions, though it may for a while be depressed by disgust or resentment, with or without a cause, is hourly revived by accidental recollection.
Seite 226 - let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape, of this day, sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the morning of youth, full of...
Seite 234 - You will then find comfort for the past, and support for the future. He that has given you happiness in marriage, to a degree of which, without personal knowledge, I should have thought the description fabulous, can give you another mode of happiness, as a mother ; and at last the happiness of losing all temporal cares in the thoughts of an eternity in Heaven.
Seite 234 - I am not without my part of the calamity. No death since that of my wife has ever oppressed me like this. But let us remember, that we are in the hands of Him who knows when to give and when to take away ; who will look upon us with mercy through all our variations of existence, and who invites us to call on him in the day of trouble.

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