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Title:  The family instructor: In two parts. I. Relating to family breaches, and their obstructing religious duties. II. To the great mistake of mixing the passions, in the managing and correcting of children. ... Vol.II. [pt.2]
Author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.
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which some in such Cases run into, that he recommended a Christian Life to all round him; his Companions honoured his Reformation, tho they had not the Grace to imitate it: All good Men valued him; and even those that had no Religion them|selves, spoke well of him; he made a happy and a comfortable End; and his eldest Son, who enjoys his Estate, is a sober well enclin'd Gentleman, that pro|mises to be one of whom his Father, if he had liv'd, would have seen no Cause to be asham'd.Brief Notes on the foregoing three Dialogues.I Should make no Notes upon these Dialogues, the Book being so crowded that I can very ill spare Room for them, but I am aware that Differences be|tween Men and their Wives are such nice Things to handle, that it will be very difficult to avoid the Censure of some People on one Side or other: The LADIES, if they are enclin'd to find Fault, will per|haps say, I am partial to the Sex, and give them the worst End of the Staff, making them more the Oc|casion of Family-Breaches than their Husbands; and making their Husbands treat them so much more ten|derly and religiously than most Husbands in such provoking Cases do; that it looks as if I was teach|ing Men how to manage their Wives.The Men perhaps may on the other hand, com|plain, that I have treated them ill; which I shall an|swer in its Place, when I come to speak of passionate Fathers and Husbands; which when the same Ladies read also, they will be less apt to think me partial.But to speak to every Thing in its Place thro' this whole Part, it will be easy for an impartial Eye to di|scern the Design of the Work; which is this, and no other, (viz.) to let every one have something for their own Caution and Direction.0