Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.

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Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life.
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London :: Printed for the author,
1664.
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Youth -- Conduct of life.
Conduct of life.
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"Advice of a father, or, Counsel to a child directing him to demean himself in the most important passages of this life." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26441.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

Pages

XCIII.

Consider what hath befallen others, and thou wilt not wonder whatever befalls thee. Do things go bad, it goes worse with better men. Art thou poor? it hath been still the fate of the bravest persons; some have been so by choice, but most by chance; wealth is but vanity, and usually vexation; like a gar∣ment too big, or too long: If my father deals with me as with the rest of his children, shall it not content me? there is no reason the most undutiful should have a double portion.

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