The young woman's companion: or, frugal housewife. Containing the most approved methods of pickling, preserving, potting, collaring, confectionary ... Also the art of cookery ... with the complete art of carving, illustrated and made plain by engravings. Likewise instructions for marketing. With the theory of brewing malt liquor. To which are added directions for letter writing, drawing, painting, &c. and several valuable miscellaneous pieces.

Date:
1813
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Credit: The young woman's companion: or, frugal housewife. Containing the most approved methods of pickling, preserving, potting, collaring, confectionary ... Also the art of cookery ... with the complete art of carving, illustrated and made plain by engravings. Likewise instructions for marketing. With the theory of brewing malt liquor. To which are added directions for letter writing, drawing, painting, &c. and several valuable miscellaneous pieces. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HAPPINESS FOUNDED IN RECTITUDE. BY JAMES HARRIS. ALL men pursue good, and would be happy, if they knew how : not happy for minutes, and miserable for hours: but happy, if possible, through every part of their existence. Either, therefore, there is a good of this steady, durable kind, or there i$ none. If none, then all good must be transient and uncertain ; and if so, an object of the lowest value, which can little deserve either our attention or inquiry. But if there be a better good, such a good as we are seeking ; like every other thing, it must be derived from some cause; and that cause must be either external, internal, or mixed ; in as much as, except these three, there is no other possible. Now a steady, durable good cannot be derived from an ex- ternal cause; by reason, all derived from externals must fluctuate as they fluctuate. By the same rule, not from a mixture of the two ; because the part which is external will proportionably destroy its essence. What then remains but the cause internal; the very cause which we have supposed, when we place the sovereign good in mind—in rectitude of conduct ? A PETITION, to those who have the Superintendency of Education. BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. I ADDRESS myself to all the friends of youth, and conjure them to direct their compassionate regards to my unhappy fate, in order to remove the prejudices of which I am the victim. There are twin sisters of us: and the two eyes of man do not more resemble, nor are capable of being on better terms with each other, than my sister and myself, were it not for the partiality of our parents, who make the most injurious