Letters to a Younger Brother; On Various Subjects Relating to the Virtues and Vices, Duties and Dangers of Youth - Softcover

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9781230459097: Letters to a Younger Brother; On Various Subjects Relating to the Virtues and Vices, Duties and Dangers of Youth

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ISBN 10: 123045909X ISBN 13: 9781230459097

Publisher: TheClassics.us, 2013

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ... short maxims. And as the Lord Jesus Christ is the great subject of many psalms, you will learn from the New Testament how to find him every-where in your daily reading. Farewell, my dear boy. Attend to your studies and your health, and, above all, offer up your heart to God. I am your affectionate brother, James. LETTER II. GRATITUDE TO PARENTS. My dear brother,--I write you on this subject thus early in my course of letters, because I think gratitude to parents is the foundation of a great many virtues; and one of the first and most distressing symptoms of a decline from the paths of virtue is the unkind or contemptuous treatment of parents. The first commandment with promise is the command to honour our parents, and our earliest duties are those which we have to render to our father and our mother. You will find counsels on this subject scattered through my letters; but as young people are apt to be impressed by narrative, I will give you a little history, which I am sure you will find interesting. The story is connected with the beautiful engraving at the beginning of these letters. There lived two poor men in a very rough and mountainous country, where they kept their flocks, and cultivated such little spots of earth as they could find among the rocks and crags. It was a region abounding in rapid streams, which poured in torrents from the precipices. There was scarcely any point from which you might not see the tops of mountains covered with snow. The hills were so rough that it was difficult and dangerous to travel even a mile, from one hamlet to another. Carriages were almost unknown, and most of the inhabitants travelled on foot, and carried their goods upon mules or asses. Ulrich and Godfrey, the two men I have spoken of, had...

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