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<p><note>Ch. XVI.</note> Frugality, itself a virtue, is an ancillary <lb/> | <p><note>Ch. XVI.</note> Frugality, itself a virtue, is an ancillary <lb/> | ||
to all the other virtues: to | to all the other virtues: to none more than <lb/> | ||
to Generosity, to which the unthinking are <lb/> | to Generosity, to which the unthinking are <lb/> | ||
so apt to regard it as <add>an adversary</add> <del>oppressor</del> The sacrifice <lb/> | so apt to regard it as <add>an adversary</add> <del>oppressor</del> The sacrifice <lb/> |
10 Oct. 1800 + 2 Note
Note 203
Note (a) ch B 202.
Ch. XVI. Frugality, itself a virtue, is an ancillary
to all the other virtues: to none more than
to Generosity, to which the unthinking are
so apt to regard it as an adversary oppressor The sacrifice
of the present to the future is the common
basis of all the virtues: — frugality is among
the most unremittingdifficult and persevering exemplifications
of that sacrifice. Important in
all classes, it is more particularly so in
those which most abound in uncultivated
minds. In these to For promote frugality, is to promote
compassion and sobriety: —to curb that raging
vice, which in painful times outstrips all
other moral cause of unhappiness put together.
In the prospects opened by frugality,
the wife and children have a principle
share: they derive nothing but vexation
and distress, from the money spent at the Ginshop
or the Alehouse Compound with this
prodigal, this hardest most unfeeling selfish unfeeling of is a
man of virtue. In
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