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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    689 little piece. Care must be taken, when you lie down* to dispose your pillow so as to suit your manner ot placing your head, and to be perfectly easy; then place your limbs so as not to bear inconveniently hard upon each other, as, for instance, the joints of your ancles : for tho’ a bad position may at first give but little pain, and be hardly noticed, yet a continuance will render it less tolerable, and the uneasiness may come on while you are asleep, and disturb your ima- gination. REFLECTIONS. IF you are disquieted at any thing, you should consi- der with yourself, Is the thing of that worth, that for it I should so disturb myself, and lose my peace and tranquillity ? Contentment is only to be found within ourselves. A man that is content with a little has enough ; he that complains has too much. If you can live free from want, care for no more; for the rest is but vanity. Socrates rightly said of contentment, opposing it to the riches of fortune and opinion, That it is the wealth of nature; for it gives every thing that we want, and really need. Prosperity has always been tho cause of far greater evils to men than adversity : and it is easier for a man I to bear this patiently, than not to forget himself in the I other. The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither bread to the wise, nor riches to men of understanding, nor favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. Every man has his chain and his clog, only it is looser or lighter to one man than to another; and he is more at ease that takes it up, than he that drags it. When Alexander saw Diogenes sitting in the warm