Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Extracted from the Novel, Count de Valmont, written by a Lady.

Plea for the married man. The felicity of the married man never stands still; it flows perpetual, and strengthens in its passage; it is supplied from various channels; it depends more on others than on himself; from participation proceeds the most ecstatic enjoyments of a married man. By an union with the gentlest, most polished, most beautiful part of the creation, his mind is harmonized--his manners softened--his soul animated by the tenderest, liveliest sensations, love, gratitude, and universal benevolence, reign in all his ideas. The house of the married man is his paradise, he never leaves it without regret, never returns to it but with gladness--the friend of his soul, the wife of his bosom, welcomes his approach with susceptibility--joy flushes in her cheek--natural are their transports. Infants lovely as the spring, climb about his knees, and contend which shall catch the envied kiss of a parental fondness. Smiling plenty, under the guardianship of oeconomy, is seen in every department of his family. Generosity stands porter at the door: liberality presides at his table, and social mirth gives to time its most pleasing motion--in the existence of a married man there is no termination; when death overtakes him, he is only translated from one heaven to another; his glory is immortalized, and his children's children represent him on earth to the last generation.