Identifier: eveningsathomeor00inaiki (find matches)
Title: Evenings at home, or, The juvenile budget opened : consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces for the instruction and amusement of young persons
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Aikin, John, 1747-1822. cn Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825. cn Corbould, Henry, 1787-1844. cn Heath, Charles, 1785-1848. cn
Subjects: Didactic fiction Conduct of life
Publisher: London : James Cornish & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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they, indeed, want powersto render their situation tolerably comfortable.Their canoes, and fishing and hunting tackleare made with great ingenuity ; and their cloth-ing is admirably adapted to fence against therigours of cold. They are not without someamusements to cheer the gloom of their condi-tion ; but they are abjectly superstitious, andgiven to fear and melancholy. L. If 1 had my choice, I would rather go toa warmer than a colder country. p. Perhaps the warmer countries are plea-santer ; but there are few advantages which arenot balanced by some inconveniences ; and it isthe truest wisdom to be contented with our lot,and endeavour to make the best of it. Onegreat lesson, however, I wish you to derive fromthis globe lecture. You see that no part of theworld is void of our human brethren, who,amidst all the diversities of character and con-dition, are yet all men, filling the station in whichtheir Creator has placed them. We are too aptto look at the differences of mankind, and to
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PROVIDENCE. 447 undervalue all those who do not agree with usin matters that we think of high importance.But, who are we—and what cause have we tothink ourselves right, and all others wrong.Can we imagine that hundreds of millions of ourspecies in other parts of the world are left desti-tute of what is essential to their well-being,while a favoured few, like ourselves, are the only-ones who possess it 1 Having all a common na-ture, we must necessarily agree in more thingsthan we differ. The road to virtue and happi-ness is alike open to all. The mode of pursuitis various : the end is the same. Ci^irttetS ebcning. PROVIDENCE; OR, THE SHIPWRECK. It was a dreadful storm. The wind blowingfull on the sea-shore, rolled tremendous waveson the beach, while the half-sunk rocks at theentrance of the bay were enveloped in a mist ofwhite foam. A ship appeared in the offing,driving impetuously under her bare poles, toland ; now tilting aloft on the surging billows,now plunging into the interveni

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