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23 fulness cannot afford satisfaction, if love and affection be strangers in the family. Therefore, to cultivate and practice these social endearments in human life, ought to engage the attention and be the constant study of all those who would wish to make the marriage-state what it was originally designed to be, viz. A Heaven upon earth.

A man should choose such a wife as he could put up with, whether she have children or not: But there is a strong propensity in the natures of both men and women, when married, to see a fair image of themselves; and if this propensity be, not gratified, the worst of consequences may ensue, if proper care be not taken, and that desire prudently managed.

When sacrifices of old were offered to the god Juno, who (the Heathens believed) presided over marriages, the gall of the victim was thrown behind the altar, to shew that no such thing as bitterness ought to be among married persons.