Vaux, Frances Bowyer / 2008-07-29 00:00:00
EBOOK DOMESTIC PLEASURES ***
Produced by Ted Garvin and the Distributed Proofreading Team
[Illustration: Frontispiece Eddystone Light House as erected
by Lord Bywater 1759.]
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DOMESTIC PLEASURES;
OR
The happy Fire-side.
ILLUSTRATED
_BY INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS_.
BY F. B. VAUX.
Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise, that has surviv'd the
fall! Tho' few do taste thee unimpair'd and pure, Or tasting, long enjoy
thee! too infirm, Or too incautious to preserve thy sweets Unmix'd with
drops of bitter, which neglect Or temper sheds into thy crystal cup;
Thou art the nurse of virtue; in thine arms She smiles, appearing, as in
truth she is, Heaven-born, and destin'd to the skies again.
COWPER.
ADDRESS.
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MY DEAR YOUNG READERS,
When I was a child, if a new book were given to me, I recollect, my
first question invariably was:--"Is this true." If the answer were in
the affirmative, the volume immediately assumed, in my eyes, a new
value, and was perused with far greater interest than a story merely
fictitious. Now, as I am very desirous that you should take up this
little volume with a prepossession in its favour, I must inform you,
that the characters of the children here pourtrayed, are all _real_
characters. The little work was undertaken for the improvement of a
family very dear to me, and was, during its progress, regarded by them
as a faithful mirror, reflecting both their virtues and defects.
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