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IL.783.079
15 Sep 1783:11 (6/280)
From the London Sunday Monitor. On the Folly and Wickedness
of Neglecting A Family and Children, for the Pleasures of
Dissipation.
. . . [1 1/2 column essay, including the following:]
Dinners and suppers, dancing and cardplaying, leave little
time, and no inclination, for the sober business of trade or
profession. . . balls, assemblies, feasts, public
diversions, cards, dress, various company, should be pursued
only as what they are--temporary amusements. . . there is
really more pleasure to be found at the family fire-side,
and in the regular performance of domestic duties, than in
the never-ceasing pursuit after fashionable amusements.
What is the delight of seeing an Italian or French dancer
stand upon one leg, compared to that of beholding one's own
smiling babes in the raptures of a game at play? What is
the delight of glittering at a ball, a play, a masquerade,
compared to that of a home, in which are found plenty,
tranquillity and love, uninterrupted by the extravagance,
the folly, the pride, the restlessness of that ignorant,
empty, weak, and fickle, yet arbitrary tyrant, fashion? . .
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