A SELECTED SERIES OF

PRECEPTS COUNSELS AND CAUTIONS

RELATING TO THE

HOPES PLEASURES AND SORROWS OF LIFE

NEW EDITION, EDITED AND GREATLY ENLARGED BY

MRS. CLARA L. BALFOUR
AUTHOR OF UPHILL WORK, THE WOMEN OF SCRIPTURE,

MORAL HEROISM, HAPPY EVENINGS, ETC.

“In small proportions we just Beauties see:
And in short measures Wit may perfect be."

BEN JONSON

LONDON
HOULSTON AND WRIGHT

“Poor indeed thou must be, if around thee
Thou no ray of light and joy canst throw,
If no silken cord of love hath bound thee
To some little world through weal and woe."-4, Winslow.